Cancer patient had ten organs removed after four-stone tumour spread through body

August 14, 2017  16:28

A man who had ten organs removed as he battled a rare form of adominal cancer has now beaten the disease.

Mark Tompkinson, 54, was given just 18 months to live after a four-stone tumour in his abdomen spread to the linings of nearby organs when chemotherapy failed to work.

Doctors removed the tumour and ten surrounding organs - replacing six of them through transplants.

Mark, from Sheffield, endured two operations lasting 22 hours - and was only given a 50/50 chance of survival in the second.

Following the operations at Churchill Hospital, Oxford, docs twice told wife Tracy, 50, he would not make it.

But he battled through and went home nine weeks later.

He told The Sun : “Thanks to an incredible team of visionary medics, I am looking ­forward to a future which brings all the blessings of normality, as opposed to one distorted by a ­completely vile disease.”

All the transplant organs came from the same donor and Mark is doing a 10k run next month in aid of The Oxford Transplant Foundation.

He added: “I’m alive because someone joined the organ donor list.”

In the first operation doctors took out his appendix and omentum - a layer of tissue around the stomach.

In the second they removed his stomach, small bowel, large bowel, pancreas, abdominal wall, duodenum, gall bladder and spleen.

They then transplanted his stomach, small bowel, large bowel, pancreas and duodenum, before building a new abdominal wall.

 

 

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