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After a 39-hour operation, a woman had a 2-kilogram tumor removed from her face…

This is Tambu Makinzi, and when she started experiencing headaches on a near-constant basis, she began to have suspicions that something could be amiss with her health.

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After just a few weeks, her forehead started to swell, and physicians determined that the 27-year-old woman was suffering from chondrosarcoma, a rare kind of bone cancer. She is now undergoing treatment.

far though the woman, who was a mother of one, had been undergoing therapy for her illness, it had reappeared earlier this year and was proving to be far more dangerous than before.

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Her whole face, including her nose and jaw bones, as well as her left eye, were obscured by the tumor, and it even caused her to lose her ability to smell.

And upon her arrival in London for treatment – having traveled over 9,000 miles to get there from Cape Town, South Africa — doctors informed Tambu that she only had a few months left to live.

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Surprisingly, there is a happy conclusion to Tambu’s narrative.

Professor Iain Hutchison, a renowned surgeon, successfully treated her condition by performing a laborious procedure that lasted more than 35 hours.

He directed a group that was responsible for removing 2 kg of tumor, and then he used the muscle and rib from Tambu’s back to reconstruct her face.

It was necessary to do a second surgery in order to remove the passed tissue, but she is now on the path to recovery, and her incredible tale is going to be the focus of a documentary that will air on Channel 5.

Following the cancellation of the first procedure, Professor Hutchison was quoted as saying, “Her life is still dangling by a thread.”

Failure is not something that I experience very often, so this is a major setback for me.

When something like this occurs, you have no choice but to face it front on and look for solutions or workarounds. If you are unable to create a seal between the face and the mouth and the brain, then any and all germs will be able to enter the brain, which will result in meningitis, encephalitis, and ultimately passed.

After a prolonged hospitalization of nine weeks, Tambu was ultimately released from the facility, and she reported that she was ‘growing better’ over time.

I can eat and swallow normally, although it is still a little uncomfortable.

“And this is the first time in months that I have been able to speak to either my husband or my daughter.”

“They are on my mind quite often.”

It is now believed that Tambu will make a complete recovery, and she will be able to look forward to the idea of growing old with her husband while also seeing their daughter Pearl develop.

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