A mother of two has told how she needed 19 hours of surgery to remove a one-stone cancerous tumour and seven organs.
Sandra Currie, 44, had a “one in a million” tumour that was putting so much pressure on her lungs she was struggling to breathe – after being diagnosed with a rare form of cancer called pseudomyxoma peritonei.
As well as removing the growth, doctors took out her gall bladder, spleen, omentum, appendix, part of her diaphragm, ovaries, and uterus. The surgery was followed by a groundbreaking new chemotherapy “wash” treatment to kill off any remaining cancer cells, which is only available in England at a hospital in Basingstoke and at Christies Hospital, Manchester.
Ms Currie, from Dunfermline, Fife, has made a remarkable fight back to fitness and health since the surgery, which was carried out on April 1, 2013.
The digital marketing consultant, married to Gordon, 47, has decided to speak out in an attempt to make the “chemo bath” treatment available north of the Border. She was forced to go to hospital almost 500 miles away in Basingstoke, Hampshire, for the procedure.
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