British cancer girl saved by windpipe made from her own stem cells

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Doctors have carried out pioneering lifesaving surgery to give a new windpipe to a British teenager suffering from cancer.

By JENNY HOPE
Last updated at 7:40 AM on 4th August 2010

The 19-year-old was able to speak within a few days of the operation carried out in Italy using her own stem cells.

Another 31-year-old patient from Czechoslovakia also underwent surgery for the same rare form of trachea cancer.Doctors regenerated tissue from the patients’ nose and bone marrow stem cells to create windpipes in the laboratory which were biologically identical to the patients’ original organs….Continue Reading

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