New York surgeons remove six-pound tumour from Gambia girl’s mouth

A 12-year-old girl from the West African nation of Gambia is expected to leave the United States next week after surgeons successfully removed a six-pound tumour from her mouth.

Surgeons in New York said the benign tumour in Janet Sylva’s mouth was about the size of a cantaloupe and was one of the largest tumours they had ever seen.