Bicycle chain in the chin spared from the effects of cancer

Mother of two children who are victims of cancer, inserted in the jaw likeness of a bicycle chain. This device, surgeons were able to correct and fix mangled bone tumors.

cancer of the jaw

In 2005, an Englishwoman Liz Healing doctors discovered cancer of the ovaries. Woman using doctors managed to defeat the disease and like to forget about her nightmare. However, in July 2012. Liz again found swollen, but this time, cancer of the jaw . Diagnosis set after a woman's teeth began to fall out, and there was a never-ending jaw pain.

cancer of the jaw

Doctors University Hospital in Coventry had surgery for a period of 12 hours during which the tumor was removed from his jaw, and then installed to the chain of titanium, which is very similar to X-rays bicycle chain. After this operation, Liz spent a month in the hospital, where it was restored and got used to the jaw.

She had to relearn how to eat and talk and go through sessions of chemotherapy and radiation after cancer of the jaw . The last one was held on December 28 last year, and now Liz is just under the supervision of doctors. Cancer in her body left. The removed tissue during surgery, surgeons replaced the skin with the hand of the patient. Well, the fabric on hand Replace "material" taken from the stomach.

"The doctors told me that there is a considerable risk of dying during the operation, but I survived - says Liz. - I had another cancer. The first victory, when my children were small, and did not want to let the second beat me. At that time, I was pretty hard to think positively, but I wanted to give their children an example of manhood. " (READ MORE)

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