Surgeons at Turin's university hospital center have successfully replaced a bone cancer victim's half pelvis with a titanium transplant. The 18-year-old Italian teenager had been undergoing chemotherapy for a pelvic osteosarcoma, or tumor, for the last year but his surgeons decided more radical treatment was necessary to ensure his recovery. In an 11.5-hour operation, the surgeons removed half the patient's pelvis along with part of his hip affected by ...
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