6-Year-Old Girl's Tumor Removed By Robot Technology First Time In Australia

For the first time in Australia, a Melbourne surgeon used robot technology to remove an inoperable tumor from a six-year-old girl's head, reports said Tuesday. The successful operation was recently performed on Freyja Christiansen from Canberra at the Epworth Hospital in Richmond. The six-year-old was diagnosed with a rare sarcoma near the base of her skull in December 2016, along with other tumors in her head and neck. Due to the location of the child's tumor -- between a main artery and the base of her skull -- several specialists refused to operate on her. Due to this, she underwent immunotherapy since last year, which helped shrink the tumors.