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 4 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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