{"id":160050,"date":"2017-03-09T23:19:01","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T23:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/us-surgeons-remove-6-pound-tumor-from-gambia-girls-mouth\/"},"modified":"2017-03-09T23:19:01","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T23:19:01","slug":"us-surgeons-remove-6-pound-tumor-from-gambia-girls-mouth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/us-surgeons-remove-6-pound-tumor-from-gambia-girls-mouth\/","title":{"rendered":"US surgeons remove 6-pound tumor from Gambia girl&#8217;s mouth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 12-year-old girl from the West African nation of Gambia is expected to leave the U.S. next week after surgeons successfully removed a 6-pound tumor from her mouth.<\/p>\n<p>Surgeons in New York say the benign tumor in Janet Sylva&#8217;s mouth was about the size of a cantaloupe and was one of the largest tumors they&#8217;d ever seen. They say it prevented her from eating and made breathing difficult. They feared Janet would die within a year if nothing was done.<\/p>\n<section class=\"mod-25\">\n<h2>More on this&#8230;<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"article-ct\">\n<article>\n<h3>Disabled patients who need organ transplants may face bias, report says<\/h3>\n<p>\t    \t<span class=\"type type-article\" \/><br \/>\n\t    <\/a><br \/>\n    <\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"article-ct\">\n<article>\n<h3>Woman who struggled to lose weight actually had 140-pound tumor<\/h3>\n<p>\t    \t<span class=\"type type-article\" \/><br \/>\n\t    <\/a><br \/>\n    <\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"article-ct\">\n<article>\n<h3>Few people know about overlapping surgery<\/h3>\n<p>\t    \t<span class=\"type type-article\" \/><br \/>\n\t    <\/a><br \/>\n    <\/article>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<p>Dr. David Hoffman learned of Janet&#8217;s plight after doctors in Senegal reached out to international health groups.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Global Medical Relief Fund<\/a>\u00a0arranged for transportation, housing and travel for Janet and her mother.<\/p>\n<p>A large medical team volunteered for the January operation at Cohen Children&#8217;s Medical Center on Long Island.<\/p>\n<p><i \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 12-year-old girl from the West African nation of Gambia is expected to leave the U.S. next week after surgeons successfully removed a 6-pound tumor from her mouth. Surgeons in New York say the benign tumor in Janet Sylva&#8217;s mouth was about the size of a cantaloupe and was one of the largest tumors they&#8217;d <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/us-surgeons-remove-6-pound-tumor-from-gambia-girls-mouth\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}