Sabrina Falcon's story: A regenerative approach to facial reconstruction after cancer

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06/16/23

Imagine going to the hospital to have basal cell skin cancer removed from your face, only to learn it had spread so aggressively that your entire nose had to be removed. That is what happened to one Arizona woman. In the past, her only option may have been a prosthesis through which she couldn’t breathe. Through regenerative medicine, a team at Mayo Clinic in Arizona was able to remove all her cancer and build a new nose just like the one she was born with – including the ability to sneeze, smell and generate fluids.

Read more on the Center for Regenerative Biotherapeutics blog:
https://regenerativemedicinebl....og.mayoclinic.org/20