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Doctors from the National Children's Hospital and the 108 Central Military Hospital have successfully performed a liver transplant on an 18-month-old girl suffering from malignant hepatoblastoma.

Cancer is the second leading cause of death in Vietnam, accounting for 17.9 percent and 19.9 percent of total deaths caused by diseases in the country in 2010 and 2017, respectively.

A workshop held in Hanoi on September 24 pointed out that there remain numerous challenges in the diagnosis and treatment of hepatitis C in Vietnam.

For the first time in Vietnam, doctors have successfully performed a split liver transplant, dividing a donor’s liver and transplanting it to an adult and a child patient.

The Ministry of Health has reported that nearly one million Vietnamese people are infected with the hepatitis C virus (HCV).

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