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The woman cut in half

Posted at 12:00 PM on December 20, 2010 by Bob Collins
Filed under: Health

Generally speaking, we're inclined to read any story that is attached to a headline "Mother of two was cut in two to remove her cancer ." That was certainly the case today with the story of Janis Ollson of Manitoba, who underwent a surgery that had never been performed at Mayo Clinic in Rochester before.

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This morning, according to the Mayo Clinic's blog, she was the hit of the Surgical Quality Conference, a quarterly meeting of all of the departments involved in surgery at Mayo Clinic.

Here's the whole story.

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