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World champion and Paralympic winner Le Van Cong has decided to auction his power-lifting World Cup gold medal to raise money to treat a child cancer patient.

Journalist Tran Thi Cam Bao said ‘Impermanent blossom’ was a gift of smiles and joys to readers before she left for the last train of her life.

Doctors at Binh Dan Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City used a robot to assist surgery in late April to remove a cancerous tumour from a 70-year-old Vietnamese woman from the Mekong Delta province of Tien Giang.

Professor Nguyen Chan Hung, one of Vietnam’s leading oncology experts, has been retired for almost 20 years. At the age of 75, he is still passionate about his work.

Doctors from the Hanoi-based Viet Duc Hospital have announced to successfully conduct the first transplant of two lungs from a brain-dead donor on a cancer patient.

New technologies in the treatment, screening and early detection of cancer were updated at the Vietnam Cancer Patient Forum 2018 held by the Salt Cancer Initiative (SCI) in Da Nang city on October 8.

Doctors at HCM City’s Binh Dan Hospital have used a robot for the first time in the country for lung cancer surgery, removing suspicious nodules through a small incision instead of a large one and without using mechanical rib spreaders, unlike in the past.

Doctors at Binh Dan Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City have performed the country’s first robotic surgery on a liver cancer patient.

Hanoi People’s Committee Chairman Nguyen Duc Chung met with a Japanese delegation of cancer experts and representatives from health facilities.