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Woman cured after undergoing the UK’s first ever liver transplant for advanced bowel cancer


A young woman is cancer-free after undergoing the UK’s first ever liver transplant for advanced bowel cancer. Bianca Perea, a 32-year-old trainee lawyer from Manchester, was told by doctors her stage four bowel cancer was terminal before the miracle operation last summer cured her of the deadly disease.

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