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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Health
Ella Pickover

Great-grandmother with ‘inoperable’ tumour receives UK-first cancer treatment

A 92-year-old great-grandmother has become the first person in the UK to receive a pioneering cancer treatment after being told her liver tumour was inoperable.

Brenda Iveson, from Harrogate in North Yorkshire, was initially told conventional cancer therapies, including surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy, would be ineffective against the six-centimetre tumour in her liver.

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