SUPER SURGEONS: A CHANCE AT LIFE IS ON CHANNEL 4 TONIGHT AT 9PM
A brand new run of the series that goes behind the scenes at The Royal Marsden, a world-leading cancer specialist hospital, as surgeons attempt pioneering treatments trying to save lives.
This new series of four episodes was filmed over a year at the Royal Marsden. Anthea, who’s 18, is an aspiring midwife with a tumour in her arm so difficult to fully remove that doctors say they may need to amputate her arm. She’s been referred to consultant general surgeon Professor Andy Hayes, who’s a specialist in difficult limb sarcomas. He wants to offer her a solution and support her in fulfilling her dreams of becoming an NHS midwife. Anthea has just undergone a procedure known as an isolated limb perfusion, which delivers intensive chemotherapy only to the arm.
Cameron, who’s 43, was surprised when his testicular cancer returned, several years after he’d had both his testicles removed. Scans showed a return of cancerous cells in the lymph nodes at the back of his abdomen – where the testicles are formed at birth. The aggressive cancer has not responded to chemotherapy. Chief of surgery and consultant urological surgeon Professor David Nicol is hoping to offer Cam one last roll of the dice, with a radical procedure known as an RPLND. Professor Nicol will have to work past all of the major organs in Cam’s abdomen to dissect the lymph nodes while hoping that the cancer hasn’t spread any further.
The whole series will be streaming on Channel 4 once episode one has transmitted.
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