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January 9, 2012 05:13 pm PST
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/2CHjNaX2Zhk/wide-awake-during-brain-cancer.html
Wide awake during brain cancer surgery
This fascinating video from the Mayo Clinic explains how 28-year-old Mary Meixner went through "awake surgery" during which surgeons used an intra-operative MRI to target her brain tumor. At the end of the operation, she slept. Then, she says, "I woke up and I was so excited, and I was like, yes! I'm not dead! [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/2CHjNaX2Zhk/wide-awake-during-brain-cancer.html
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