[p4irs]

A poor Chinese woman who was left horrifically disfigured by bone cancer is feeling much better after doctors performed surgery to remove 70 large tumors from her face.

Li Hongfang became disfigured by the tumors as a result of a rare form of cancer, reports the Daily Mail.

Li, 40, was forced to endure the condition, known as Chordoma, for more than a decade because she didn't have money to pay for the surgery. But after her story touched hearts around the world, a hospital in Xi'an, the capital of northwest China's Shaanxi Province, offered to perform the surgery for free. The surgery normally costs about $90,000.

"I feel my head is lighter, and I must look better," Li told the Daily Mail following the operation. She explains that even though her surgery is over, she still hasn't looked at herself in the mirror. "I want to save the big time to the time when the surgery swelling goes down. It could be the best gift to me," she said.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/0...n_1683706.html

Chordoma is a rare slow-growing neoplasm thought to arise from cellular remnants of the notochord. The evidence for this is the location of the tumors (along the neuraxis), the similar immunohistochemical staining patterns, and the demonstration that notochordal cells are preferentially left behind in the clivus and sacrococcygeal regions when the remainder of the notochord regresses during fetal life.

[*Ragdoll_Cutie*]

Wow!

[Arsedestroyer]

such a shame but i'm glad she got it sorted out

[civilizedisamyth]

Oh, shit! Remember "Big Trouble in Little China"? when the guy at the end blew himself up? Is it wrong that i'm laughing? I'm going to hell, aren't I?

[Spiffyfable]

She looks halfway OK on that one pic... hope it doesn't regrow.

Like the fucking hair on my back that I just had waxed less than 3 weeks ago

[Pelle]

Poor woman!

[Faline]

Shame

[Rusty666]

[durt]

[LERK]

looking good