AGuinean singer has had throat tumor removed while singing, to preserve her vocal chords. Alama Kante, the niece of music giant Mory Kante, was hypnotized so that the operation could be performed in a hospital near Paris.
When Alama was found to have a throat cancer, she was terrified that she would lose her voice and thus her career. So surgeon Gilles Dhonneur at the Henri Mondor hopital near Paris cut out the tumor while she was awake and under anesthetic. The operation proved to be a cliff-hanger for the medical team- Kante had no voice for several minutes after the operation had finished but her voice gradually returned completely.
"I wasn't in the hospital, I was far away from here, in Senegal" she said afterwards. Although he has practiced surgery with the help of a hypnotist for two years, Dhonneur said that neither he nor anyone else had taken the procedure so far as he did in the operation on Kante performed in April.
Kante will soon be performing to promote her new album.
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