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A new hope for the Vietnamese Bubble Lady

A new hope for the Vietnamese Bubble Lady

Heroic plastic surgeon Dr. McKay McKinnon is continuing his good work in Vietnam by helping more terribly disfigured patients. Already this week the renowned surgeon from Chicago has removed an enormous 90kg tumour from a man’s leg at a hospital in Ho Chi Minh City. 32-year-old Nguyen Duy Hai‘s tumour weighed more than he did [...]

The sad tale of the Vietnamese Bubble Lady

35-year-old Thach Thi Sa Ly lives in a rural area of Vietnam on the Mekong Delta, where she is known as the ‘Bubble Lady’ because of her bizarre medical condition. Ly first started developing her bubbles when she was just a year old, as she grew so to did the number of bubbles and their [...]

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Indian Elephant Man hoping for love

A grotesquely disfigured Indian man is on the lookout for love after he gets his unsightly facial tumours removed. 26-year-old farmer’s boy Lalit Ram from Lorika, in east India, is taunted daily by his neighbours and was told he would never find a wife because he is simply too damn ugly. But lucky Lalit has [...]

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Good news for man with enormous leg tumour

31-year-old Nguyen Duy Hai from Vietnam has suffered almost his entire life with a massive ugly tumour growing from his right leg. The record breaking tumour weighed in at an incredible 80kg back in June, which is as much as two Kylie Minogues super-glued to your thigh, but far less attractive. Poor Hai didn’t see [...]

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Miracle Day arrives for Ed Port

41-year-old neurofibromatosis sufferer Ed Port from Ohio will finally be getting the miracle he’s been praying for. This week Ed will be flying to Chicago to have the first in a series of operations to remove the huge tumour growing on the side of his fizzog. Ed has been afflicted with facial tumours since childhood, [...]

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Chinese woman has body like a melted alien

A woman from China is seeking medical help for a rare condition which has left her looking like a melted alien. 43-year-old Tan I first began developing tumours when she was just 20 but didn’t bother getting anything done about the condition. Now the disease has ravaged her body, her flesh has lost its elasticity [...]

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Spanish face transplant recipient goes public

A Spanish man, identified only as Rafael has appeared at a press conference in Seville this morning to proudly show off his new face. Rafael received a partial face transplant in January this year, only the ninth ever time the procedure has been performed with just one full face transplant also having been carried out [...]

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Elephant Man’s brand new face

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Elephant Man’s brand new face

“I didn’t recognize myself” Those were the words of James O’Neal when he first saw the new face which surgeons had constructed for him. James from Redmond, Wash. has suffered for years due to his condition, called neurofibromatosis which caused huge benign tumours to grow on his face. James refused to let his startling condition [...]

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A new hope for Ed Port

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A new hope for Ed Port

38 year old Ed Port from Ohio received some good news this week concerning the miracle he desires. Ed was born with a rare genetic condition called neurofibromatosis which causes large tumours to grow on his face. Ed’s condition is the same as the so called Chinese Elephant Man Huang Chuncai’s disfigurement although fortunately for [...]

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China’s Elephant Man prepares for further surgery

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China’s Elephant Man prepares for further surgery

32 year old Huang Chuncai from China’s southern Hunan province is preparing for a third operation to remove the enormous tumour growing on the left side of his face. Huang gained the nickname Elephant Man when the neurofibromatosis he suffers from caused huge tumours to grow on his face, severely disfiguring him. Not only are [...]

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