Brain tumor of 1.8 kilos removed in men: 'lay 2 heads together'

mumbai - Doctors in India have succeeded on Valentine's Day to remove a very large tumor from the head of a 31-year-old man. The operation was kept secret because the chances were that it would fail. 'It looked like the man had stacked two heads together,' said a doctor about the man before the operation.

In total, the operation took about seven hours at the Nair hospital in Mumbai. 'It is now a question of recovery, but he is no longer in danger,' doctor Trimurti Nadkarni told AFP.

For three years Santlal Pal, a shopkeeper from the state of Uttar Pradesh, was walking around with the enormous tumor on his mind. He had already been to three hospitals where he was told that operating was not possible.