A YOUNG woman is cancer-free after undergoing the UK's first liver transplant for advanced bowel cancer.
Bianca Perea, a 32-year-old trainee lawyer from Wigan, was given the surgery in the hope it could offer a potential cure for her deadly disease.
The procedure has been a huge success and together with other treatments - targeted drug therapy, chemotherapy and surgery - she now has no signs of cancer anywhere in her body.
Bianca first visited her GP after feeling constipated and bloated. She was referred to her local hospital where she had tests, before being referred for a colonoscopy and biopsy.
She was given the shocking news in November 2021 she had stage four bowel cancer - the most advanced kind - which had spread to all eight segments of her liver.
Bianca said: "I actually didn't have really bad symptoms at all. I'd noticed a change in my bowel habits and also bloating and a little bit of pain in my stomach. I was 29 at the time and I was never bloated to the extent I couldn't do up my clothes or my trousers. It was just a little bit uncomfortable."
During the colonoscopy, a camera on a thin tube was passed through the bowel to examine it in full detail.
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