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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.

Sep 3, 2026

15:32
How was your recovery from the surgery?
15:35
I was very lucky.
15:36
So my surgery was on, on the Friday and, you know, I went into surgery not knowing.
15:40
It, it was a, it was a just a try, to try and get him walking and to try and stabilize his back.
15:45
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.
15:58
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.
16:05
I can't.

31 MINS LATER

46:37
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.

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