Breakthrough cancer surgery gives woman a second chance
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Brooke Zepp, a 63-year-old woman, was diagnosed with leiomyosarcoma. Leiomyosarcoma is a rare cancerous tumor, and it was deep inside her abdomen, wrapped around her aorta and other arteries that supply blood to vital organs. She was given 6 months more to live.
Surgery was not an option, according to her doctors, because of where the tumor was located; it was so deep that could not remove it without damaging her organs. So, Brooke went through Chemo and radiation but neither worked.
Salvation came from the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Medical Center where a surgeon at the The Transplant Institute performed what is believed to be the first surgery of its kind.
"The organ transplant specialist had to remove Zepp’s stomach, pancreas, spleen, liver and small and large intestines in order to reach the cancerous tumor. The organs were chilled and preserved outside Zepp’s body during a painstaking 15-hour operation."
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Surgery was not an option, according to her doctors, because of where the tumor was located; it was so deep that could not remove it without damaging her organs. So, Brooke went through Chemo and radiation but neither worked.
Salvation came from the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Medical Center where a surgeon at the The Transplant Institute performed what is believed to be the first surgery of its kind.
"The organ transplant specialist had to remove Zepp’s stomach, pancreas, spleen, liver and small and large intestines in order to reach the cancerous tumor. The organs were chilled and preserved outside Zepp’s body during a painstaking 15-hour operation."
More after the jump...
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