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My injury was so bad I couldn’t walk so doctors grew me a new knee

Following a knee injury, Richard Painter was given new cartilage, ‘grown’ using cells from his own body. About 30,000 people in the UK suffer similar injuries each year. Here Richard, 48, and his surgeon, Professor George Bentley, describe the treatment to DAVID HURST

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