In 2004, she learned that she had advanced ovarian cancer, which required extensive surgery and eighteen months of chemotherapy.

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For example, D'Amico tells of a 62-year-old woman who came to him, dressed in black, who wanted extensive surgery.

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Ms. BRENDA SWAN: My husband has just come out the hospital from extensive surgery, and I have a son that's had two strokes and is paralyzed.

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He retired from golf in 2007 after continual back problems, and has needed even greater powers of resolve to withstand extensive chemotherapy and surgery to remove the tumour on the brain, which was diagnosed after he collapsed twice in Madrid.

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Their goal is to buy time after a car accident, gunshot wound or massive heart attack to get a person into the hospital and into surgery before they die or suffer extensive brain damage.

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Her ability to walk has been achieved through extensive physiotherapy and Selective Dorsal Rhizotomy (SDR) surgery, developed by Dr Park, paediatric neurosurgeon at the St Louis Children's Hospital in Missouri.

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Traditional surgery can be more effective because it allows more extensive repair of surrounding tissue, surgeons say.

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He had suffered extensive bleeding to the brain and underwent life-saving emergency surgery.

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