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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Health
Jane Kirby

Cancer patient becomes world’s first to receive ‘landmark’ treatment

Tracy Tomlinson, who has spent more than five years living with ovarian cancer, has become the first patient in the world to receive a pioneering new therapy - (PA)

A woman with advanced ovarian cancer has become the first patient globally to receive a pioneering new therapy.

Tracy Tomlinson, 58, was given the experimental drug, ZI-MA4-1, at the Christie NHS Foundation Trust in Manchester.

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