Hope for five siblings with facial tumours

The Central Hospital for Odontology-Stomatology has received the five siblings who have huge tumours on their faces.

A family with five children with humps on their faces

Doctors have said that it will be difficult to perform operations on those patients but hope still exists.

Doctor Tran Van Phu, Head of the General Plan Department of the hospital, said that it was highly possible that this was a hereditary disease.

The hospital has carried out some tests on those patients but doctors have not determined the reasons yet. The hospital has sent case-records of those siblings to German experts for consideration.

Dr. Tran Thiet Son, Head of the Plastic Surgery Department at Hanoi-based Saint Paul’s Hospital, said that the huge tumours were most likely fibromas.

In this case, the best treatment method is to cut them off. However, the operations are difficult because the tumours are connected to the childrens’ noses, mouths and eyes.

However, if the patients are not operated on, the tumours will grow and cover their mouths, eyes, noses.

There is no member of the family of those patients that participated in the war, nor have any of their relatives ever had such a condition.