A 22-year-old patient was suffering from cough for few months and was having difficulty in eating and swallowing. The patient consulted a CT in his city. When the scan was done, it was found that there was a huge tumor on the left side of the chest near the lungs. Relatives of the patient, who was undergoing treatment for breast cancer at AIIMS, advised her to be seen at AIIMS.
When senior cancer surgeon (Dr.) Vinay Kumar at AIIMS saw the patient in the cancer surgery OPD, he immediately admitted him and got a CT scan done. In which he found that there was a tumor of about 5 kg inside the chest on the left side of the patient. This seemed to be stuck to the food pipe from the left lung and to the thick blood vessel (arch of aorta).
The operation was quite complicated but keeping in mind the young age of the patient, Dr. Vinay Kumar, cardiothoracic surgeon ( After discussing the case with Dr. Yogesh Niwaria, CTVS, a team was formed which included Dr. Yogesh Niwaria, Cardiothoracic Surgeon (CTVS), Dr. Harish and Dr. Shikha of Anesthesia Department, Dr Vinay Kumar (Senior Oncosurgery) from the Onco Surgery team. , Dr. Nilesh (Oncosurgeon), Dr. Ankit Jain (Oncosurgery) were involved and decided to operate the patient and successfully performed the surgery and removed 5 kg tumor from the patient's chest.
Now the patient is completely healthy and the entire treatment costing about Rs 10-15 lakhs has been done free of cost under Ayushman Bharat Scheme. Executive Director of AIIMS Bhopal, Professor (Dr) Ajai Singh has congratulated the entire team for this wonderful achievement.