'But I felt no pain': Doctors pioneer 'massive breakthrough in cancer surgery'

"But I felt no pain, and the day afterwards I was up and about walking," said Tanya Tanna, who reportedly just received a "breakthrough" surgery for her cancer.

Tanna, of South Ruislip, west London, "feels whole again" after becoming the "first patient in the UK to have a new form of breast reconstruction surgery," according to the BBC.

"A team of London surgeons developed and performed the keyhole procedure, which is less invasive, aids a quicker recovery and reduces the chance of getting a hernia," the outlet reported late on Thursday night. "They called it 'a massive breakthrough in cancer surgery'."

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Tanna is quoted as saying, "After this complex surgery, lasting eight hours, I was expecting a large amount of pain... But I felt no pain, and the day afterwards I was up and about walking. The nurses were looking at me as if it was a miracle!"

The report continues:

"Mr Dariush Nikkhah, a consultant plastic surgeon at the Royal Free Hospital, and Mr Alistair Slesser, a consultant colorectal surgeon at Hillingdon Hospital, pioneered the approach using keyhole surgery, which modified a breast reconstruction surgery technique being used in a few places around the world."

Nikkhah is quoted as saying, "The Royal Free Hospital is now one of the few centres in the world which can offer this type of surgery... It's more difficult to perform but improves recovery. Whereas patients usually need four to seven days in hospital to recover, this surgery requires only one to two days."

Slesser further added, "This is a massive breakthrough in cancer surgery."

"The surgeon would control the instruments from a console using robotic arms. This would allow greater control and magnification, for precise and meticulous surgery," he added.

Read the report here.