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An Ayrshire cancer patient is getting back to normal life after her leg was saved during remarkable surgery in the middle of Covid restrictions.

cancer patient had part of her leg removed and rushed to another hospital for radiation treatment and then sent back to doctors to be reattached in a rare surgical procedure.Jan Ritson's left tumorous shinbone was cut out at the Golden Jubilee Hospital and sent on a 20-minute journey to Glasgow’s Beatson West of Scotland Cancer Centre in a sterile container.After being treated, her shinbone was then returned to doctors at the Clydebank hospital where Jan was still on the operating table under a team led by Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon Ashish Mahendra of Glasgow Royal Infirmary.The skilled surgeons carried out the complicated 12-hour procedure on the 71-year-old in order to deal with a sarcoma, with the aim of saving Jan's leg and avoiding

Scots pensioner whose leg was saved from amputation during the coronavirus pandemic used a drone to say thanks to medical staff.James Donnelly, 72, had been rushed to hospital in May with a growth on his left thigh.Quick-thinking specialists diagnosed a rare form of bone cancer, and within days the tumour was removed.The grandad-of-one underwent a brutal nine-hour operation and it was touch and go at points whether or not his leg would survive the surgery.But thanks to the hard work of Mr Ashish Mahendra, who runs the Orthopaedic Oncology service at Glasgow Royal Infirmary (GRI), James is well on the road to recovery.Delighted grandson Kiaran, 16, decided to show his family’s gratitude in a thoroughly modern way, and sent a video of an NHS