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All for One

At University Hospital Southampton, surgeons perform life-saving surgery: taking out a patient鈥檚 eye and the tumour behind it and removing an 83-year-old man鈥檚 cancerous bladder.

At University Hospital Southampton, surgeons perform life-saving surgery. Maxillofacial consultant Sanjay Sharma and his colleague Madan 'Ethu' Ethunandan's next case is particularly challenging: removing a patient鈥檚 eye to cut out cancer that is growing deep behind it and then reconstruct his face. It鈥檚 a rare operation, with just ten carried out in the UK every year. Without the procedure, their patient, 76-year-old retired lorry driver Mick, would die. The hope is that the operation will leave Mick cancer-free.

Meanwhile, urology consultant Vicky Dawson and her mentor Julian Smith have an elderly patient who urgently needs a life-saving operation. Eighty-three-year-old patient Norman has been successfully treated for prostate cancer but now has cancer in his bladder, so both his bladder and prostate need to be removed. But the entire operation is placed in jeopardy when Norman, who has a pre-existing heart issue, develops an irregular heart rhythm as he is being anaesthetised.

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58 minutes

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Role Contributor
Narrator Shaun Dooley
Director Brigid McFall
Producer Lottie Webb
Producer Sophie Mohamed
Producer Ruth Mulcahy
Editor Tim Hansen
Production Manager Emma McCormack
Series Producer Paul Durgan
Executive Producer Daniel Barry
Production Company Dragonfly Film and Television

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