Tim Almond

From The Telegraph

The team from Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital in Paris drilled a 3mm hole into the skull of a patient under local anaesthetic, inserting a tiny fibre-optic cable armed with a laser.

The doctors were then able to “see” the metastatic tumour and steer the cable thanks to a MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) scan, which uses magnetic and radio waves.

This sounds truly amazing and a number of people who were expected to have a limited life now have no cancer cells.

Just one thing… does anyone else not like the idea of having a hole drilled in their skull and a laser inserted whilst under a local anaesthetic?

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