Egyptian Medical Team Extracts Giant 10-Centimeter Pelvic Tumor via Non-Invasive Endoscopy in Port Said

Adham mohamed58 minutes ago

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In a groundbreaking clinical milestone forafr’s state-funded healthcare models, an expert multidisciplinary medical team at Al-Shifa Medical Complex has successfully extracted a giant pelvic tumor measuring over ten centimeters from a 50-year-old female patient without deploying conventional open surgery.

The highly complex intervention, announced by the Egypt Healthcare Authority on Sunday, marks the absolute first time a non-invasive procedure of this magnitude has been achieved under the country’s modern Universal Health Insurance System.

This operational breakthrough underscores Cairo’s expanding capacity to localize cutting-edge oncological treatments and deliver highly advanced, minimally invasive therapeutics within a public solidarity-based framework.

The landmark procedure was executed utilizing advanced tumor-dissection and specialized third-space endoscopy techniques, allowing clinical specialists to completely isolate and excise the transformed tumor mass while entirely eliminating the severe systemic risks, prolonged recovery timelines, and surgical site complications associated with major pelvic surgery.

The patient, who possessed a compounding medical history of breast cancer, had been diagnosed with the large transformed mass deep within the pelvic cavity; following a rigorous multidisciplinary assessment of available interventions, doctors opted for complete endoscopic removal.

Despite the underlying anatomical complexities and the sheer mass of the lesion, the endosurgical procedure was concluded with absolute technical success, allowing the patient to be discharged in a highly stable condition with zero post-operative complications.

According to Dr. Ahmed El-Sobky, Chairman of the Egypt Healthcare Authority, the success of the Al-Shifa surgical team directly reflects the massive structural progress made in modernizing therapeutic gastroenterology services across state infrastructure.

The dedicated Gastrointestinal and Biliary Endoscopy Unit at Al-Shifa Medical Complex, established at a capital cost of approximately 20 million Egyptian pounds, stands as Egypt’s premier specialized public center leveraging third-space endoscopic technologies to treat advanced tumors, serving the vital Suez Canal Region.

While advanced interventions of this high-tech classification typically command market prices exceeding 250,000 Egyptian pounds within the private commercial healthcare sector, the procedure was provided entirely free of charge to the beneficiary under the state’s universal insurance framework.

This regional center of excellence is rapidly expanding its international academic footprint; last year, specialists from the Port Said department co-authored a definitive scientific paper analyzing the successful endoscopic resection of complex tumors exceeding ten centimeters, which was formally accepted for presentation at the prestigious annual conference of the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy.

The historic operation was orchestrated by Dr. Ahmed Madkour, Head of Gastroenterology at the Healthcare Authority’s Port Said hospitals and an expert in third-space interventional techniques. This clinical success marks the completion of the first phase of Egypt’s Universal Health Insurance System—which launched in Port Said in 2018 and successfully expanded to cover over 6.2 million beneficiaries across six governorates by July 2025—as the state accelerates its massive phase-two expansion to achieve absolute national healthcare coverage by 2030.