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.
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