Surgeons: A Matter of Life or Death

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12:35 AM to 1:35 AM

Wednesday 27 August

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Cameras follow life-saving operations at the University Hospitals Birmingham. The first episode features Stephen, 53, whose rapidly growing and aggressive mouth and jaw cancer is a cause for critical concern. Surgeons Prav Praveen and Sat Parmar need to urgently perform an extraordinary and radical procedure - removing and discarding Stephen's jaw, two thirds of his tongue and his bottom teeth, while rebuilding the jaw using bone from his leg and creating an entirely new tongue from his own flesh