{"id":67438,"date":"2014-11-22T10:05:08","date_gmt":"2014-11-22T10:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=67438"},"modified":"2014-11-22T15:02:36","modified_gmt":"2014-11-22T15:02:36","slug":"football-sized-tumor-removed-from-11-year-old-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2014\/11\/football-sized-tumor-removed-from-11-year-old-boy\/","title":{"rendered":"Football sized tumor removed from 11-year-old boy"},"content":{"rendered":"
An 11-year-old boy from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, is recovering \u00a0after surgeons in New Mexico successfully removed a football-sized tumor from his neck and upper body.<\/p>\n
The removal of the 11-pound growth was the culmination of a two-year charitable effort to get medical care for Jose Antonio Ramirez Serrano.<\/p>\n
The boy’s growth was the size of a golf ball at birth, but had grown to be nearly 12 inches long and 4 inches wide, Reuters reports.<\/p>\n
A 25-person medical team spent 12 hours operating on Serrano at the University of New Mexico Hospital.<\/p>\n
It marked a two-year effort by the First Baptist Church of Rio Rancho to help the boy. Church members became aware of him during a 2012 missionary effort. The boy’s parents had hit a dead end in terms of getting medical help for Jose in Mexico, Newser reports.<\/p>\n
The surgery was an important step for Serrano, according to church spokeswoman Kristean Alcocer.<\/p>\n
“The road to recovery will be long, and many challenges still lie ahead,” Alcocer said, according to the Associated Press.<\/p>\n
The mass is gone, but doctors said Serrano will still require a number of followup surgeries to reconstruct his shoulder and remove excess skin, UPI reports.<\/p>\n
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Source: Huffingtonpost.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
An 11-year-old boy from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, is recovering \u00a0after surgeons in New Mexico successfully removed a football-sized tumor from his neck and upper body. The removal of the 11-pound growth was the culmination of a two-year charitable effort to get medical care for Jose Antonio Ramirez Serrano. The boy’s growth was the size of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":67442,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[7],"yoast_head":"\n