The Vietnamese girl has a 16-pound facial tumor and is in Miami awaiting surgery that will restore her ability to eat and speak. Doctors say the tumor threatens to suffocate Lai. They will remove the tumor in a 10-hour surgery on April 29 in US
These handout photos are courtesy of the University of Miami School of Medicine, in Miami, Florida shows an extremely large tumor that has severely deformed the face of fifteen year-old Lai Thi Dao from Vietnam. US doctors are due to remove from the Vietnamese girl a 16-pound (seven-kilo) tumor thought to be one of the largest of its kind on record.
Dr. Robert Marx, left, points to a CT scan of fifteen-year-old Lai Thi Dao during a news conference at the Jackson Memorial Medical Center Tuesday, April 22, 2008 in Miami.
The Vietnamese girl, center, has a 16-pound facial tumor and is in Miami awaiting surgery that will restore her ability to eat and speak. Doctors say the tumor threatens to suffocate Lai. They will remove the tumor in a 10-hour surgery on April 29. Behind Dao is her mother Tuyet Van, and sponsor Geoffrey Le of Fort Worth, Tx., and holding the scan is Dr. Jesus Gomez
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