UCSF Saves Life of Patient with Spine Tumor

http://www.ucsf.edu/news/2012/02/11453/balance-beam-state-bar

Twenty three year-old Angelica Galang is a former gymnast. She was a fun-loving college student when her doctor discovered a five-inch benign tumor in her spinal column in 2009 after she fell down multiple times earlier that year. If the tumor had continued to grow, Angelica would have become a quadriplegic unable to breathe on her own.

Surgery to remove the tumor involved a very complicated procedure and only a handful (less than ten) of neurosurgeons in the United States are skilled enough to successfully perform it. UCSF Dr. Philip Weinstein performed the surgery in 2009.

Angelica is in a wheelchair now, but her tumor is completely gone and she doesn't have to worry about not being able to breathe on her own. She recently applied to law school and got accepted by her number one choice: UC Berkeley School of Law.

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