. >> reporter: it is the last place amy reed, a successful boston annas thesologist and mother of sixected to be, in a hospital ward as a cancer patient. accompanied by her husband, a boston heart surgeon. what the couple discovered is that during amy's surgery, in a minimally invasive hysterectomy the surgeons used a morse illator to mince the f.b.i. roids into pieces. the procedure, she says, spread the hidden cancer cells. >> you can see tissue, chunks, dripping down. it's not a refined procedure. >> reporter: amy says he was never informed or consulted about the use of morcellation, had she known, she wouldn't have allowed it. >> i did not know initially, it's not something they tell you when they say your surgery went well. they didn't say your surgery went well and we shredded things up. i learnt they were morcellated, and the chance of occurs meaning the disease coming back was in the ballpark of 80% because of how they handled the consumer in front of me. >> 80%. >> 8-0. if it came back i knew i had life expectation si of two years. >> my wife was hit in a way as a surgeon, i