How a liver transplant helped one woman with bowel cancer become disease-free

By Justin Stebbing, Professor of Biomedical Sciences, Anglia Ruskin University

In a groundbreaking medical achievement in the UK, a 32-year-old woman from Manchester has undergone the country’s first liver transplant for advanced bowel cancer.

Bianca Perea was diagnosed with stage four bowel cancer in November 2021, with the disease having spread to all eight segments of her liver. Initially given a bleak prognosis, she responded really well to rounds of drug-based treatment. Yet despite the promising response, the disease…

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