About The Operation
You, Me and the Big C: Putting the can in cancer
BBC
4.8 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 11 April 2019
⏱️ 105 minutes
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Summary
Lauren Mahon and Steve Bland join Deborah James at the Royal Marsden Hospital as Debs goes in for an operation for the ablation of her liver tumours.
We hear from Consultant Interventional Radiologist, Dr Nicos Fotiadis and Consultant Anaesthetist and Dr Torsten Beutlhauser who will be in charge of her procedure.
Also Steve and Lozza go meet Mr Declan Cahill, a Consultant Urological Surgeon and his team. Declan takes them into his operating theatre as he oversees and performs an actual real life prostatectomy by robotic surgery.
They then go and see Debs after her operation and catch up again with Dr Nicos Fotiadis.
The whole #youmebigc team would like to thank the Royal Marsden Hospital for providing us with this incredible opportunity.
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| 0:00.0 | VBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts |
| 0:05.8 | Welcome to You Me and the Big Sea with me, Steve Bland. |
| 0:08.8 | And I come to you from a very swanky part of London, |
| 0:12.2 | we're outside the Royal Mars and Hospital. |
| 0:14.2 | And you'll notice that I'm all by myself this week, |
| 0:16.7 | well just for now anyway, because, well firstly, |
| 0:19.2 | Lauren is running a bit late, |
| 0:20.4 | a nightmare of the Chewbs and the Overground in London. |
| 0:22.4 | But secondly, because we're here to talk to Debs, |
| 0:26.2 | as she's having some of the chimers in her liver blasted out, |
| 0:30.0 | and we're going to talk to her before, |
| 0:32.4 | speak to some of the surgeons and then talk to her after as well. |
| 0:35.2 | And she, true to form, has decided to run 10 kilometers |
| 0:40.7 | or so from home to the hospital, as she does. |
| 0:44.9 | So we're just going to wait here for her |
| 0:46.5 | and try and grab her before she comes in. |
| 0:49.6 | And here she comes, resplendent in what I think |
| 0:52.8 | Michael decided his peach running down full and roads, |
| 0:57.1 | looking as glamorous as ever. |
| 0:59.8 | Debs, how are you doing? |
| 1:02.1 | Oh my god, I'm not good. |
| 1:03.8 | How are you? |
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