A Connecticut woman was suffering stomach pains when a colonoscopy revealed she had advanced colorectal cancer that had spread to her liver, a diganosis that would’ve been a death sentence years ago — but thanks to cutting-edge care at a hospital in Boston, she’s cancer-free.

After a rare liver transplant, Mary DeSalvo recently returned to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center for a checkup and spoke with 7NEWS about the dark days following her difficult diagnosis.

“It was stage 4, which is very scary word to tell a 27-year-old who is 5 months out from their wedding,” she said. “I put my foot down and I told everyone, ‘I don’t want to hear your opinions, I’m sorry, but the wedding is happening the way that I want the wedding to happen, we already have all of this planned.”

So a team of d

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