Man's Stomach, Gall Bladder, Bowel, Pancreas, Liver Were Removed In Multiple Organ Transplant Due To Incurable, Rare Peritoneal Cancer

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An incurable cancer causes a man's stomach, small bowel, large bowel, pancreas, spleen, gall bladder, appendix, abdominal wall and most of his liver removed. He was one of only four people in the world who survived multiple organ transplant surgery.

Adam Alderson, 37-year-old was diagnosed by doctors having a rare peritoneal cancer known as pseudomyxoma peritonei. This form of illness grows in the abdominal lining, called pseudomyxoma peritonei, and is incurable, TUKO.CO.KE reported.

He was told to have just weeks to live. “I was dying; my girlfriend could see it; my friends could see it, and I was very aware of how little time I had left. This was my last chance,” Alderson recalls.

Despite his condition, Adam was challenged by the chance of surviving the 17-hour intensive surgery. The procedure required 30 people working shifts to take off his 10kg tumors before multiple abdominal organs were transplanted into him, Daily Mail reported. Adam, from Preston-under-Scar in Wensleydale, North Yorkshire, is now planning to marry his fiancee Laura Blanchard after the success of his operation.

When Adam was initially placed in a sedative care, he declined to accept his disheartening situation. He told his doctors to believe his strong characteristics as what make him survive.

Initially, he was misdiagnosed with irritable bowel syndrome. Adam recognized it as a more serious condition only when he and Laura move to Australia in 2011. "We had been in Australia for around 18 months when I was diagnosed with PMP. The diagnosis came out of nowhere. I just collapsed. It's the old cliché - it's never going to happen to me," he said.

Adam was told by doctors that his condition was very rare. He had to return home for treatment at the Christie Cancer Hospital in Manchester, which is a world superior in a cancer cure.

Adam and Laura went back home in February 2013, and Adam had his preliminary visit at the Christie the same month. He is to prepare for a surgical operation in a belief that the procedure could remove his abdominal tumors as possible. However, his doctors informed him that the procedure was very risky for it to be completed.

Regardless of being radically sick and weak, he researched treatments and surgeries around the world. He eventually heard about the operation done for former England's rugby league player Steve Prescott, who was also a PMP patient. The 32-hour operation succeeded, but Steve died due to graft-versus-host disease, a complication that can take place after transplants.