MAN WITH FOOTBALL SIZED TUMOUR ON HIS HEAD

"The first thing I'm going to do is go home": Down and out Chinese man has tumour the size of a football removed from face - and vows to return to the family he walked away from

37-year-old undergoes remarkable surgery on disfigurement after telling relatives to forget about him

Before: Chen Jianguo's facial tumour left him severely disfigured

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A Chinese man has successfully had a tumour the size of a football removed from his face.

Details are scant on the operation performed on Chen Jianguo at Sun Yat-sen University Hospital in Guangzhou, but as these pictures illustrate the change in his appearance is drastic.

The 37-year-old is said to have first developed a small tumour on his head in 1995.

Doctors inspect the huge tumour

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"They can forget they ever gave birth to me": Chen walked away from his family home

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Not wanting to be a burden on his parents, he left the family home in Liandu town, Zhaoqing city in 1998 and decided to live rough.

“I told them that they have to take care of my brothers and sisters,” he told a reporter in a video report uploaded to YouTube in May of last year.

“They can forget they ever gave birth to me.”

It would seem that Chen was prepared for the worst before the remarkable surgery on the debilitating tumour.

“I will receive the operation, even if the risk of it going wrong is large,” he is reported to have said.

“If successful, the first thing I'm going to do is go home.

“If not, I'm glad to donate my organs to anyone who needs them.”

After: Transformation is staggering

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Chen was prepared to donate his organs if the operation went wrong

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