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I Am The Elephant Man: A Bodyshock Special
Channel 4 Monday 7 April 9pm
In a moving and thought-provoking film, China's 'Elephant Man', Huang Chuncai, tells his own extraordinary story as he undergoes surgery to remove tumours, weighing 20kg, that have caused him a lifetime of suffering and are now threatening his life.
As a small child Huang developed a swelling on the side of his face, but now, at the age of thirty-one, the relentless growth of the tumours have destroyed his features, wracked his body and make up half his body weight.
'I knew from an early age that I was different from others, that I was disabled,' he says. 'When I went to school people pointed and laughed at me, so I left school. I am a human being – not an animal.'
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