Life and death. Part 2, Tumours.

The second in a four-part series of autopsies performed by Gunther Von Hagens and recorded at the Institute for Plastination in Heidelberg, Germany, in front of an international audience of body donors and anatomy students. The series aims to look at the processes of disease and death on the body, and this part focuses on tumours, looking at how they grow and what makes them kill us. Von Hagens dissects the body of an elderly woman who died of bowel cancer while Professor John Lee, Pathologist at Rotherham General Hospital & Hull York Medical School, provides a more medically detailed account of the process.