Two-year-old girl undergoes complex renal cancer surgery at Tiruchi’s Mahatma Gandhi Memorial GH
Doctors at a government hospital in Tiruchi successfully performed a complex surgery to remove a Wilms tumour from a two-year-old girl. The child is recovering well and will undergo follow-up chemotherapy as part of her treatment.
Why it matters
The successful procedure highlights the capabilities of public healthcare institutions in managing complex pediatric oncology cases.
Doctors in the Department of Paediatric Surgery at Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Government Hospital (MGMGH) in Tiruchi successfully performed a complex cancer surgery on a two-year-old girl diagnosed with one of the most common kidney cancers affecting children recently.
According to a hospital press release on Tuesday (July 21, 2026), the girl from Manapparai, was brought to the Department of Paediatric Surgery at MGMGH after her parents noticed an abdominal swelling.
She was admitted on July 10 and after a detailed clinical evaluation and imaging, she was diagnosed with a right-sided ‘Wilms tumour’, a malignant tumour arising from the right kidney.
The child underwent a radical right nephrectomy with extensive lymph node dissection on July 13. The procedure involved complete removal of the cancerous right kidney along with the surrounding lymph nodes to ensure adequate cancer clearance and accurate staging.
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