A brave six-year-old with bone cancer has made a remarkable recovery - after surgeons amputated and re-attached her arm to remove a tumour.
Bethan Evans's left arm was 'temporarily' amputated and driven to another hospital three miles away so doctors could remove the golf-ball sized cancerous tumour with radiation.
Amazingly, just hours after her arm was cut off at the shoulder, medics were able to reattach the healthy limb - and she is now on the road to recovery.
A team of 10 expert medics sewed Bethan's arm back on again during an eight-hour operation at the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital in Birmingham.
She underwent the painstaking procedure last July, six months after she was struck down with Ewings Sarcoma – a rare bone and tissue cancer.
Since the operation she has undergone months of physiotherapy to strengthen her arm, and she is now looking forward to returning to school next month.
Her mother Lynne, 37, a supply teacher, said:'When we were told it was cancer we held ittogether until we got to the car and I just wanted to go home, I was distraught.
'When the doctors told us the surgeons would have to remove her arm we were shocked, we couldn’t believe it.
'As a parent you want to protect your children but we were being told the only way to remove the cancer was to amputate her arm, have it driven across a city to another hospital before being driven back and sewn back on.
'We didn’t want to scare Bethan so we told her that she was having a sleep, which she got used to, and we told her when she woke up her lump, we didn’t say cancer, would have gone.
'We were terrified enough and that is all we told her, after the operation and when she recovered we told her and she said it was great, she said it was cool.
Source: http://m.yahoo.com/w/legobpengine/news/brave-six-year-old-makes-amazing-recovery-from-bone-cancer---after-medics-amputated-and-re-attached-her-arm-to-remove-tumour-133140611.html?orig_host_hdr=uk.news.yahoo.com&.intl=GB&.lang=en-GB

No wonder our politicians always visit their hospital any time they are having headach