New Zealand surgeons cut giant tumor from baby

Oct 30, 2008 By RAY LILLEY , Associated Press Writer
In this photo released by the Port Nicholson Rotary Club and taken by the Wellington Hospital shows Alex Gonzaga, a 14-month-old East Timorese baby on a operating table as surgeons prepare to remove a tumor almost one-third of his body weight in Wellington, New Zealand, Sunday, Oct. 26, 2008. Surgeons cut out the 7.3-pound (3.3-kilogram) benign tumor successfully and baby Alex is expected to make a full recovery with no long term consequences. (AP Photo/Wellington Hospital)

(AP) -- Doctors removed a tumor from an East Timorese baby that was almost one-third the child's body weight during a life-saving operation in New Zealand, officials said Thursday.



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