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Dr. Tomoaki Kat, a Miami transplant surgeon removed five organs in order to take out a tumor from a 63 year old woman.

During a groundbreaking 15-hour surgery, Dr. Kato’s team opened Zepp’s abdomen like the hood of a car and took out the entire engine: her stomach, pancreas, spleen, liver and large and small intestines.

The organs were chilled while surgeons detangled the two-inch tumor from Zepp’s aorta, the main blood-supply to those organs – and two other arteries.

Once the tumor was out, the organs, connected to new Gortex blood vessels, went back in.
“I’m shocked looking at it,” Kato said. “While we were watching she was like, ‘oh my goodness.’”

Now three weeks since the surgery, Zepp is looking at herself from the outside in – grateful that her gamble seems to have paid off.

“I thought it would be better to take a chance on living than on dying soon,” she said.

Zepp also said she want to prove to the world that inoperable cancers can be operated on. Her cancer is now gone, and she’s heading home.

This article appeared on AOL this morning. I found it amazing that they could put her organs on ice while the doctor took out her tumor. Imagine the kinds of surgery that can be done with this technique. People may very well live to be over a hundred years old if cancer and heart disease can be removed from our lives.

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