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Dede, aka "The Tree Man" who had some of his tree-like warts removed in a surgery this year, said those tree-like warts are growing again.

After under going surgery early this year, Dede were able to eat, use cellphone and go fishing on his own. But now as the warts are growing again, he needs some assistance again.

As his tree-like growths are growing, doctors said that he needs at least two operation a year for him to use his hands.

Seen here is Dede after his operation early this year.

"Those (warts) that were removed are growing again and started to reappear after I returned home," he said, adding that for a time he could go fishing and use a cell phone but now needed assistance again for such activity.

"We have told him that his disease could not be 100 per cent cured. In the previous operation, we only tried to increase his quality of life," said Rachmat Dinata, one of a team of doctors treating him at the Hasan Sadikin hospital in Bandung, a city near his village.

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