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A YORK musician has travelled to Turkey for a life-saving liver transplant, after the NHS said it could no longer do the operation and an £80,000 fundraising campaign was launched to pay for it.

Don Jackson spent seven months on a health service waiting list for a transplant before being told that cancerous lesions on his liver had grown too big for the procedure to go ahead, claimed his friend Dave Sollitt.

A YORK musician has travelled to Turkey for a life-saving liver transplant, after the NHS said it could no longer do the operation and an £80,000 fundraising campaign was launched to pay for it.

Don Jackson spent seven months on a health service waiting list for a transplant before being told that cancerous lesions on his liver had grown too big for the procedure to go ahead, claimed his friend Dave Sollitt.

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