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Molly Pennington & Chiara Fiorillo

Mum lives with huge dent in head carved out to save life from 1-in-a-million skin cancer

A woman lives with a huge dent on the left side of her head which was carved out to allow her to survive a one-in-a-million form of skin cancer.

Barbora Hájková, 38, made it through a gruelling eight-hour operation that removed a 9x12cm chunk of her skull to save her from a tumour.

Doctors told the woman, from Strasnice, Prague, Czech Republic, that the tumour was so rare it had only been recorded growing in six cases worldwide in the same area as it was found in Barbora's head.

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