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A bowel cancer patient has become the first to have life-saving surgery using a new multi-million-pound robot at a Kent hospital.

Mandy Lee from Whitstable who had originally dismissed her bowel cancer symptoms as stress related, had part of her bowel removed after doctors discovered a small growth known as a polyp was cancerous.

β€œIt was a bit of a scary

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