Alberta woman returns home after successful cancer surgery in the U.S.
SEVEN PERSONS, AB. – Tanya Ellis is beyond thrilled to be home from Houston, Texas after receiving life changing surgery.
Ellis had a cancerous tumour removed from the underside of her liver four weeks ago. She is recovering at home with her family in Seven Persons, located approximately 20 kilometres southwest of Medicine Hat, and has a large incision to remind her of the battle she has been fighting.
“It was 43 staples,” she said. “It’s from my chest bone down to my belly button and then across my hip.”
Doctors in Canada deemed her tumour inoperable, and gave her a thousand days to live. Ellis wasn’t ready to give up and sought out the M.D. Anderson Cancer Clinic in Houston, TX.