. . . muttered the ogre

Once again, a seaside resort restores a man’s health.

For the first time, cancer has been treated by removing an organ from the body, giving it radiotherapy and then re-implanting it. The out-of-body operation allows doctors to administer high doses of radiation to widespread tumours without affecting other organs.

The technique has been dubbed TAORMINA after a resort town in Sicily. It’s also an acronym for Trattamento Avanzato degli Organi per Mezzo d’Irradiazione con Neutroni e Autotrapianto.