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Kelly-Ann Mills

Woman cured of deadly cancer after groundbreaking double lung transplant

A woman has become the second ever person to be cured of stage four terminal lung cancer, after a ground-breaking technique was used to save her.

Tannaz Ameli had a double lung transplant and is now cancer free - a year after the first patient Albert Khoury, received the novel surgery after all other treatments failed.

Mrs Ameli, 64, said: "I hope that all cancer patients can be as lucky as me and Albert were.

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