A 9-year-old boy from Shaoguan, Guangdong, has a 5-pound teratoma in his chest cavity that causes him to sit and sleep at a later stage, and is condemned by many major hospitals to “terminal illness” and can only wait for death. The father posted online for help, recommended by enthusiastic netizens, the boy in the Southern Medical University Zhujiang Hospital to remove the teratoma to get a new life. On the 30th, the reporter saw Xiao Hao and normal children, can eat and sleep, rosy cheeks. Xiao Hao was already big news when he was born, because it was a rare triplet; his story of survival is again touching thousands of netizens. Xiao Hao, from Shaoguan, Guangdong Province, is the eldest of the triplets, nine years ago when his mother gave birth to him and two sisters in one child, had become a local sensation, envious of neighbors and friends. All three children are lively and cute, and academic performance is very good, Xiao Hao is tall and strong. However, from 2010, Xiao Hao was always purple and out of breath when he climbed up to the fourth floor after school, and a checkup at the local hospital revealed a large mediastinal teratoma in his chest. In March 2010, Xiao Hao underwent a chest teratoma removal in a hospital in Shaoguan, lying in the hospital bed, he did not miss a day of homework, his sister came back from school every day as a small teacher, to help his brother catch up on the day’s lessons. The teratoma not only recurred but also grew rapidly, invading the pericardium, bilateral pleura, right lung, and superior vena cava, making it impossible for Xiao Hao to lie down, and in the following six months, Xiao Hao could only sleep sitting on his stomach on a padded pillow every night. Xiaohao’s father, Mr. Mao, is a post office worker, his mother is unemployed, the family is not well-off, for the child’s treatment even the house was sold, but because of the seriousness of the disease, no hospital dares to admit Xiaohao. At the end of February 2011, a Nanjing netizen replied that through the recommendation of another netizen in Shanghai, he found Professor Chen Qunqing, deputy director of thoracic surgery at Zhujiang Hospital. Professor Chen Qunqing of Zhujiang Hospital’s Thoracic Surgery Department said, “It is rare for a child’s entire chest cavity to be filled with a tumor. Now the child is recovering well and will be discharged from the hospital in a few days.” According to Professor Chen Qunqing, the cause of teratoma is currently unknown, and research speculates that it may be related to infection or irritation during pregnancy. Teratomas are mostly benign, but their malignant tendency tends to increase with age, and are mostly found in the sacrococcygeal region, mediastinum, retroperitoneum and gonadal areas. They occur in newborns and infants and are more common in women. After diagnosis, teratomas are mainly removed surgically, but huge teratomas like Xiaohao’s are very rare.