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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Ria Newman & Ryan Merrifield

Mum has leg skin graft to cover eye socket which has its own hair and blood supply

A woman who had her eyeball removed after a devastating cancer diagnosis has had a skin graft taken from her leg to cover the empty socket.

Emma Cousins, 35, from Sheffield, South Yorkshire, beat mesenchymal chondrosarcoma – a type of cancer – after being diagnosed in April 2018.

The mum-of-two ended up having her eyeball removed in June of that year, and made it through gruelling radiotherapy treatments to kill off the disease and be in remission.

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