Woman undergoes rare 'dual surgery' for tumours in breast, heart at Delhi hospital

In a rare dual operation, a 55-year-old woman from Uttar Pradesh underwent back-to-back surgeries for a malignant tumour in her breast and a benign one in the heart at a private hospital here, doctors said on Thursday.

The patient was admitted to the hospital with a cancer in her right breast. A CT scan of her chest revealed clear lungs, but a malignant mass in her breast and something in her heart (left atrium) which was asymptomatic, the hospital said in a statement.

"A team of doctors from Fortis Hospital, Vasant Kunj in south Delhi, consisting of oncologists, cardiologists, radiologists, anesthesiologists and critical care specialists, conducted simultaneous open-heart surgery and segmental mastectomy under general anaesthesia on the 55-year-old patient from Gorakhpur," it said.

This form of dual surgery is "rare and the first of its kind," the hospital claimed, saying the surgery was conducted recently.

The doctors said the cardiology team's tests suggested that the mass or ...