{"id":1885,"date":"2014-03-01T22:50:50","date_gmt":"2014-03-01T22:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/up\/wordpress\/2014\/03\/01\/cancer-patient-makes-medical-history-after-surgeons-attach-his-leg-to-his-arm-to-keep-it-alive\/"},"modified":"2022-10-29T18:00:22","modified_gmt":"2022-10-29T17:00:22","slug":"cancer-patient-makes-medical-history-after-surgeons-attach-his-leg-to-his-arm-to-keep-it-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/cancer-patient-makes-medical-history-after-surgeons-attach-his-leg-to-his-arm-to-keep-it-alive\/","title":{"rendered":"Cancer patient makes medical history after surgeons attach his LEG to his ARM to keep it alive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><strong>A man with cancer made medical history when doctors trying to reach a deep tumour removed his leg and attached it to his ARM.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><strong>Ian McGregor, from Sunderland, had to go under the knife in an 18-hour life-saving operation to remove the cancerous cells from a hard-to-reach place in his upper thigh.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><strong>But in a medical first, daring doctors at a Newcastle hospital removed his leg muscles and tissue.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><strong>They then attached it to his forearm to keep the cells alive with fresh blood flowing through them.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p><strong>After the operation, the excess skin and flesh was then used to repair the hole where the tumour was.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Thankfully for Ian, although his leg still had to be amputated, the operation was a success.<br>Ian said: &#8220;They told me we&#8217;re definitely going to be taking the calf off and implant it into your right arm to keep it alive.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I thought &#8211; it&#8217;s just amazing what they can do, it&#8217;s like Star Trek!&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He is now cancer free and awaiting a prosthetic leg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s not the first medical miracle to help cure the disease, recently a cancer patient was rid of up to 70 tumours thanks to a new drug.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ian Brooks became cancer-free thanks to a new treatment which acts \u201clike an armour piercing shell\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Consultants at the Christie hospital in Manchester were amazed when they looked at his scan after and found the tumours had disappeared.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man with cancer made medical history when doctors trying to reach a deep tumour&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1884,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,56],"tags":[200,2360,2359,2357,284,597,151,305,520,2358,328,1943,2355,2356,66],"class_list":["post-1885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-creazyworld","category-news","tag-after","tag-alive","tag-arm","tag-attach","tag-cancer","tag-his","tag-history","tag-it","tag-keep","tag-leg","tag-makes","tag-medical","tag-patient","tag-surgeons","tag-to"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1885"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3493,"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1885\/revisions\/3493"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}