Miami (eCanadaNow) - When you have a tumor that is beneath and behind several large organs in the body, it has been deemed impossible to remove by surgery- up to now.  Doctors have disproved that belief, at least in one instance for a very fortunate Florida woman.

After receiving a diagnosis of leiomyosarcoma, a rare cancer in her abdomen, Zepp had tried radiation and chemotherapy but neither had worked.

Doctors at the University of Miami Jackson Memorial Medical Center made surgical history recently.  They took out 7 organs of the body, removed the cancer tumor, and then painstakingly put the organs gently back in the body.

Sixty Nine year old Brooke Zepp had a lemon-sized tumor deep in her abdomen, and it appeared to be out of reach and beyond surgical repair. But 9 different doctors worked over fifteen hours to prove that sometimes, the impossible is possible.

The doctors removed her pancreas, her liver, her spleen, her stomach, her entire small intestine and much of the large intestine. The transplant team was led by Dr. Tomoaki Kato, a specialist in transplant surgery.

This new surgery shows the possible length that surgery can reach, and the hope that it can be duplicated for other cancer patients remains open.

The organs that were removed from Ms. Zepp sat in a large square pan for about an hour and half while the tumor was cut out and arteries re attached. Then one by one her organs were replaced and Ms. Zepp was sewn up.