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Cancer Survivor and World Champion Volleyball Player Opens Up About Her Amputation

By Today Show, 04/24/19, 12:00PM PDT

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“I love talking about my amputation,” explained Jillian Williams, a member of Team USA’s Sitting Volleyball team. After undergoing treatment for Ewing’s sarcoma, part of Williams’ leg was amputated and her foot was reattached to her femur through a rotationplasty surgery at MD Anderson Cancer Center. Today, Williams says her life is better with one leg than it was with two.

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