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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Health
Ella Pickover

Great-grandmother gets UK-first cancer treatment on tumour deemed untreatable

Brenda Iveson was the first in the UK to receive a novel technique to deliver treatment for liver cancer (handout/PA) -

A great-grandmother thought to have inoperable cancer has become the first person in the UK to receive treatment using a novel technique.

Brenda Iveson, from Harrogate in North Yorkshire, was told that usual cancer treatments would not work for the six-centimetre tumour in her liver.

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