before and afters please anyone

Good to see the poor chap was relieved of his burden.

- Though I cannot help but wonder: Will they eat it?

A google images search on Huang Chuncai shows some images. nothing spectacular but you get the idea...

another good one here: http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=58496&in_page_id=2 you can make out his ear just under the blanket.

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/photo/2006-06/29/content_629422.htm

How in the world can you post a story like this with no pics? For that matter, don't you have any pics of Jordon and her new pup?

It's much worse than words described. <shudder>

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFE8Ed8fO_E

And a pic:

http://bp0.blogger.com/_GzXYfK-lDG4/RnqHYTBLLYI/AAAAAAAAA40/rJqIcm0NUVY/s1600/tumour.jpg

Poor bloke. Here's wishing him well.

http://www.itv.com/news/world_1ecac8e655d9f19467e3f62b153c6e64.html

http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=58496&in_page_id=2

http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=58496&in_page_id=2

Sounds like it was American doctors...

I sincerely hope he gets it sorted, but lawks alive why wait 30 years?

By the end of year 1 it must have been anything but "unimaginable"... unless someone nicked all the mirrors and kept swapping out his hats for bigger ones.

Which is naughty.

"Chuncai" Huang? ...I wonder if he's related to Hu-Je Huang?

"Sounds like it was American doctors..."

Not if he had insurance.

That's socialized medicine for you.

Obviously he's going to need more surgery to rid of the rest of it, still, good luck to him, and a speedy recovery. 30 years living with tat must have been difficult.

Chinese Public Hospitals (not private ones which are generally the ones you read about for really dodgy practices) are - from personal experience having a few minor tumors removed while I was living there - rather like Western public ones: shabby and underfunded but clean and competently staffed. Also, while heavily subsidised by the government, procedures are not free - like in the US, if you have no money at all you go without for the most part. Chinese people do tend to respond generously to TV stories about people needing life-saving procedures they can't afford.

From other reports around, I gather that while relatively benign, the said tumor is packed with blood vessels and even with latest operating procedures presents a serious bleeding-to-death-on-the-table risk during the operation, which might also explain why it took so long to act.