Surgeons: A Matter of Life or Death

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  • Premiered: Jul 2023
  • Episodes: 12
  • Followers: 0
  • Running
  • Channel 5
  • Wednesday at 21
  • Documentary

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Season 2
2x1
Episode 1
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 08, 2025
Sajid has a massive aneurysm above his heart. If it bursts, he will bleed to death. Margaret needs an urgent operation to remove a tumour from the lining of her brain.
2x2
Episode 2
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 15, 2025
Surgeons face a challenge as Susan's aggressive cancer spreads from her upper jaw to her eye and nose - and removing it will leave a significant hole in her face, which will need complex reconstruction.
2x3
Episode 3
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 22, 2025
Syed's life hangs in the balance as his testicular cancer spreads into his heart. Consultant urological surgeons must undertake a radical plan to remove the tumour, with help from cardiac surgeons.
2x4
Episode 4
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 05, 2025
ENT surgeon Shahz Ahmed prepares to operate on Sarah, whose large bone tumour is pushing into her skull. And Mike, who has pancreatic cancer, is having a high-risk but potentially life-saving operation.
2x5
Episode 5
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 12, 2025
Claire has a tumour growing at the bridge between her brain and her nose. And if her surgeon can't mend the hole he has to make in her skull to get the tumour out, she risks developing meningitis.
2x6
Episode 6
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 19, 2025
A cardiac surgeon performs a heart transplant on mother-of-three Katie after a three-month wait in hospital. And 75-year-old grandfather Edward needs life-saving surgery for aggressive kidney cancer.

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