At University Hospital Southampton, surgeons perform life-saving surgery. Maxillofacial consultant Sanjay Sharma and his colleague Madan 'Ethu' Ethunandan's next case is particularly challenging: removing a patient’s eye to cut out cancer that is growing deep behind it and then reconstruct his face. It’s a rare operation, with just ten carried out in the UK every year. Without the procedure, their patient, 76-year-old retired lorry driver Mick, would die. The hope is that the operation will leave Mick cancer-free.

Meanwhile, urology consultant Vicky Dawson and her mentor Julian Smith have an elderly patient who urgently needs a life-saving operation. Eighty-three-year-old patient Norman has been successfully treated for prostate cancer but now has cancer in his bladder, so both his bladder and prostate need to be removed. But the entire operation is placed in jeopardy when Norman, who has a pre-existing heart issue, develops an irregular heart rhythm as he is being anaesthetised. Show less