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Cancer patient's remarkable journey
He went through brain surgery - awake
Mr Oh Zhi Long, 32, discovered by accident that he had a brain tumour. Less than a week later, he lay awake as surgeons removed the cancerous growth. Mr Oh and the National Neuroscience Institute gave The Straits Times exclusive access to the operation. Science editor Chang Ai-Lien, deputy picture editor Wang Hui Fen, and multimedia journalist Basil Edward Teo documented this remarkable surgery and tracked his journey to recovery.
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He lies in the operating theatre, still and seemingly asleep.
Part of his head is behind a transparent curtain. From behind, his skull has been sawn open and neurosurgeon Ng Wai Hoe begins the delicate process of removing a walnut-size tumour from the deep recesses of his brain.
