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Xavier Saviani
Australian cancer survivor and mental health advocate who shares his story of beating non-Hodgkin lymphoma as a young footy player on the Young Blood - Men's Mental Health podcast.
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Sep 3, 2026
Backing Yourself Through Cancer
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15:36Xavier SavianiGUEST
So my surgery was on, on the Friday and, you know, I went into surgery not knowing.
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15:40Xavier SavianiGUEST
It, it was a, it was a just a try, to try and get him walking and to try and stabilize his back.
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15:45Xavier SavianiGUEST
Um, so I went in there thinking, "You know what? I'm gonna drop my expectations to zero, so I don't get disappointed after." And I went in there, and I had surgery, and then after surgery, um, the doctor came into my room the next morning and said, "Surgery went well.
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15:58Xavier SavianiGUEST
Uh, let's get up and go for a walk." And I, and I just had surgery 12 hours before, and I said, "What, what do you mean? I can't go for a walk.
31 MINS LATER

Cal MacphersonHOST
So just, so tell me about the, the positive part of this story where obviously chemo had the desired effect and, and then you were able to re- move into remission.