Indian doctors successfully performed an eight-hour long procedure to replace the femur (thigh bone) of a 12-year old Bangladeshi boy who was diagnosed with Osteosarcoma, a cancer that affects only the long bones. According to the doctors, the boy was discharged and is able to walk with support, barely five days after surgery.
Generally it is said that children diagnosed with this condition don’t survive longer than six months and the only option in the past used to be amputation.