Cancer survivor is first to get new artificial tongue on NHS

United Kingdom

What to know

  • Doctor struggled to speak after losing her tongue aged 26 in operation to remove cancerous tumour - so recruited a team of colleagues to build her a new oneS1
  • Dr Imogen Brooks was diagnosed with squamous cell carcinoma – and surgery to remove a tumour had taken most of her tongueS2
  • Dr Imogen Brooks was diagnosed with a squamous cell carcinoma, the most common type of head and neck cancer, when she was just 26.S3
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3w Mirror

Cancer survivor is first to get new artificial tongue on NHS

Doctor struggled to speak after losing her tongue aged 26 in operation to remove cancerous tumour - so recruited a team of colleagues to build her a new one

3w Independent

Cancer survivor who was left with speech problems given artificial tongue in NHS first

Dr Imogen Brooks was diagnosed with squamous cell carcinoma – and surgery to remove a tumour had taken most of her tongue

3w Standard

Cancer survivor receives artificial tongue in NHS first

Dr Imogen Brooks was diagnosed with a squamous cell carcinoma, the most common type of head and neck cancer, when she was just 26.

Cancer survivor is first to get new artificial tongue on NHS

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What to know

  • Doctor struggled to speak after losing her tongue aged 26 in operation to remove cancerous tumour - so recruited a team of colleagues to build her a new oneS1
  • Dr Imogen Brooks was diagnosed with squamous cell carcinoma – and surgery to remove a tumour had taken most of her tongueS2
  • Dr Imogen Brooks was diagnosed with a squamous cell carcinoma, the most common type of head and neck cancer, when she was just 26.S3
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Sources · 3 citations

S1 Mirror 1 report · EN
S2 IndependentLead 1 report · EN
S3 Standard 1 report · EN