The life of Saidu Ibrahim, an 18 year-old student of Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, who has been passing blood in his urine due to cancerous cells in his bladder, has been saved by a team of surgeons at the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa Teaching Hospital, Bauchi.
The surgeons carried out a procedure that led to the removal of the bladder, and constructed a new bladder (neobladder reconstruction) which replaced the old bladder.
His life was saved.
The team, which included Dr. Makama Salihu, the head of surgery, ATBUTH Bauchi, was led by Haruna Liman.
Ibrahim had a five-year history of passing blood in his urine as a result of the cancer of the bladder, Liman said.
“The aim of this procedure is to give him the best option because there is no cure for cancer. What we did for him was to control the tumour from spreading and increase his chance of survival and that we have achieved so far. The second part of the procedure was to remove the bladder and refashion a new bladder for him,” he said.
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