Moffitt Doc Performs Innovative Arm Transplant

A Moffitt Cancer Center doctor recently performed the first surgery of its kind in the U.S. on an 8-year-old girl from Iowa with osteosarcoma.

Josalyn Kaldenberg was scheduled to have her right arm amputated due to a cancerous tumor until her parents learned through their own  Internet search about Dr. G. Douglas Letson's work at Moffitt.

Josalyn's humerus bone, shoulder and elbow joints were successfully replaced with a prosthetic at Shriners Hospital for Children in Tampa, according to the St. Petersburg Times.

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