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Islip Terrace girl home after surgery on 6 organs

Hours after the extraordinary surgery last month that saved her life, 7-year-old Heather McNamara only had one question: "Is the cancer gone?"

Heather returned home Tuesday with her parents, Tina and Joe, a month after surgeons at Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital of NewYork-Presbyterian in Manhattan performed the rare and risky procedure that removed six of her organs in order to extract...

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