Last night’s BBC Two documentary Surgeons: At the Edge of Life gave viewers a front-row seat to some frankly unforgettable viewing.
Staff at the Queen Elizabeth hospital received 74-year-old Jasmine Harkness, who said that five months ago she’d noticed a swelling her stomach.
Jasmine said: “I’d been to my sister’s and I felt sort of bloated. And I was getting thinner as well in the face, and I thought there was something not quite right.”
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She was referred to the specialist sarcoma unit, where it was discovered she had an enormous tumour in her abdomen.
Weighing more than three stone, the tumour was displacing her organs including her stomach, kidney and liver.
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