A YOUNG woman has been declared cancer-free after undergoing Britain’s first liver transplant for advanced bowel cancer.

Bianca Perea, a 32-year-old trainee lawyer from Manchester, was given the surgery in the hope it could offer a potential cure for the disease.

The procedure has been a huge success and together with other treatments — targeted drug therapy, chemotherapy and surgery — she now has no signs of cancer anywhere in her body.

Ms Perea visited her GP in Wigan, where she lives, after feeling constipated and bloated.

She was referred to her local hospital, where medics noted high levels of blood in her stool, and she was referred for a colonoscopy and biopsy.

Ms Perea was given the shocking news in November 2021 she had stage four bowel cancer — the most advanced kind — which had spread to all eight segments of her liver.

Dr Ian Rowe, honorary consultant hepatologist at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust said: “I’m delighted that Bianca has responded so well to the treatment and that she is now cancer free.

“We are, of course, indebted to the family of the organ donor — as is made clear with Bianca’s case, organ donation saves lives.”