9 organs were removed from the women’s body during the operation

65 years old Pam Pope underwent a 13-hour operation to remove all the organs she could live without as surgeons battled to remove an aggressive and rare form of cancer from invading her body. Cancer patient has her appendix, large bowel, gall bladder, spleen, womb, ovaries, fallopian tubes, cervix and most of her small bowel removed. The patient complained of symptoms for 15 months before doctors diagnosed her as suffering irritable bowel syndrome. She burst into tears after hearing all this list.

The operation, carried out by a team of six leading UK surgeons, was  followed by a ‘chemo bath’, where the abdominal cavity is filled with warm chemotherapy liquid - normally for 90 minutes, while the patient is still under anaesthetic. It is one of the most invasive operations performed and the only way to treat a rare cancer thought to originate in the appendix - pseudomyxoma peritonei (PMP).

Despite everything that the doctors had taken the woman was told five per cent still remained on her small bowel.

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