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A bout with cancer left this woman without a tongue — until she got a new one made from her leg.
Surgeons took skin and muscle from the woman’s thigh to re-create the part of her tongue lost to her rare infection of squamous cell carcinoma.
Cameron Newsom, 42, had half her tongue removed in an effort to fight cancer after dealing with excruciating pain post-diagnosis in 2013.
“At the time of my diagnosis, I’d lost over seven pounds because I was unable to eat or drink,” Newsom, from Colorado Springs, Colorado, told Newsflare. “I was 33 at the time and in very good shape, so I couldn’t understand why this was happening to me.”
Woman’s tongue replaced with thigh to fight cancer: ‘It grew leg hair’
A bout with cancer left this woman without a tongue — until she got a new one made from her leg.
nypost.com
