Surgeons: A Matter of Life or Death

Barbara, a 79-year-old woman, has a rare tumour sitting inside the tear duct in her eye. Surgeon Shahz Ahmed must remove her entire eye and several of her lymph nodes before the cancer spreads to the brain. Zaheer Shah prepares himself to carry out a groundbreaking procedure on his patient Nick, who has recently been diagnosed with bladder cancer. Mr Shah will remove Nick's cancerous bladder and create a new one, made out of his small bowel.

A 17-year-old's liver is failing and he needs an urgent transplant, but it is a very risky procedure, carrying huge potential for serious bleeding. Daniel is also facing a huge surgery. He has a major cancer in his right kidney that has grown into the renal vein and into a major vessel in his heart. If left untreated, he lives with the threat that his tumour could break off and make its way into his lungs - causing sudden death.

Surgeons Andrew Kay and Richard Irving attempt to help 28-year-old Abi, who is suffering from debilitating facial pain caused by a tumour near her brain, which is compressing the trigeminal nerve leading to her face. The will attempt to carve a hole in the side of her skull and detangle the tumour from her nerve before sucking it out in tiny pieces.