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Tumour girl speaks again after year

Anna Davis, Health Reporter
30.10.09

A teenage girl from Zimbabwe has spoken for the first time in almost a year after London doctors removed a football-sized tumour from her face.

Nomatter Taremedzwa Mapungwana, 18, known as Tare, was unable to eat or speak properly after the tumour grew in her jaw. Two charities - savingfaces.co.uk and girlchildnetworkworldwide.org - paid for her to be flown to Britain for life-saving surgery at the Royal London, where doctors performed the procedure free of charge.

The teenager is recovering after the nine-hour operation, led by Iain Hutchison, professor of oral and facial surgery.

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