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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Alex Croft

Woman cancer-free after receiving UK’s first liver transplant for advanced bowel cancer

Bianca Perea is now cancer free after she was diagnosed in 2021 - (Phil Tragen/The Christie NHS Foundation Trust/PA)

A young woman has received a “second chance at life” after undergoing the UK’s first ever liver transplant for advanced bowel cancer.

Bianca Perea refused to accept that prolonging her life was the only option when she was diagnosed with stage four bowel cancer – which had spread to her liver.

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