By Olivia Williams PUBLISHED: 18:17 EST, 7 April 2013 | UPDATED: 20:31 EST, 8 April 2013 Young Chelsea fan Triny Amuhirwe is smiling again after a trip to Britain in which she had a lifesaving operation - and finally met her hero Frank Lampard. The eight-year-old from Uganda had a two-kilogram tumour growing on her face, which would have suffocated her if it had continued to grow, so she came to London for the painstaking operation. Her mother Sarah, 30, said: 'The growth had taken over her face and I couldn't bear to see her like that. Without help I knew she was going to die.'
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British surgeons saved a Ugandan girl disfigured by a huge tumour
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Doctors were worried the tumour would suffocate her if it grew further
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Eight-year-old Triny got to meet her hero Frank Lampard
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The Cheslea FC star invited her to Premier League match against Wigan
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Triny wrote a thank you letter saying that Lampard was 'very nice'
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