Fla. Doctors Remove Girl's Rare Tumor

February 1, 2008 By RON WORD, Associated Press Writer

(AP) -- Surgeons removed a rare brain tumor from a 12-year-old Cambodian girl who was being cared for by a Christian school for the disadvantaged in Phnom Penh.

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