Kirsty Smitten developed new antibiotics.
Scientist Kirsty Smitten made huge breakthroughs in her short career One of Britain’s top young scientists has died aged just 29 from an extremely rare form of heart cancer originally diagnosed as a pulled muscle. Kirsty Smitten was diagnosed with cardiac angiosarcoma in November last year and given just months to live. The cancer is so rare her surgeon had never seen it before, and only two people a year in the UK receive a diagnosis.
However, she insisted something was wrong and waited 11 hours before a CT scan revealed a cancerous tumour in her right atrium, one of the heart’s two smaller, upper chambers. The diagnosis was terminal, and she was given just months to live. Speaking to MailOnline in March, Kirsty said: ‘To get any kind of growth in your heart is very rare because your heart cells don’t replicate after a certain age.
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