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A VIETNAMESE man was in a stable condition in hospital yesterday after doctors removed a giant tumour from his right leg that weighed more than the rest of his body, hospital officials said.

Nguyen Duy Hai's massive 90kg tumour was cut away by a team of doctors in a risky operation that lasted 12 hours on Thursday, the France-Vietnam (FV) hospital in Ho Chi Minh City said in a statement.

The patient was still sedated but in a stable condition in the intensive care unit, it said.

In a video released by the hospital after the procedure, five medical workers in scrubs are seen heaving the blood-stained tumour into a yellow medical waste container, which nearly tips over under the weight of it.