Scots cancer patient's shin cut out and rushed to another hospital for treatment then sent back and reattached
cancer patient had part of her leg removed and rushed to another hospital for radiation treatment and then sent back to doctors to be reattached in a rare surgical procedure.Jan Ritson's left tumorous shinbone was cut out at the Golden Jubilee Hospital and sent on a 20-minute journey to Glasgow’s Beatson West of Scotland Cancer Centre in a sterile container.After being treated, her shinbone was then returned to doctors at the Clydebank hospital where Jan was still on the operating table under a team led by Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon Ashish Mahendra of Glasgow Royal Infirmary.The skilled surgeons carried out the complicated 12-hour procedure on the 71-year-old in order to deal with a sarcoma, with the aim of saving Jan's leg and avoiding