Leah will leave for surgery tomorrow

Three-year-old cancer patient Leah Xuereb will be setting off on her road to recovery tomorrow when she gets on the flight to the US where she will be operated upon in just over a week. The parents of the Gozitan girl have booked their flights to take her to Anderson Cancer Centre in Texas where she will undergo life-saving surgery. “We are very nervous and worried since this is a major operation… But this is what we wanted and we are hopeful. “No one gives you a guarantee that the operation will be successful. But it has been on others so we hope and we pray,” her mother Zhana told The Times. Tests on Leah will start when she arrives at the Texas hospital and the operation is scheduled to take place on November 12. Leah is currently at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London where she had been receiving treatment for cancer for the past 15 months. The toddler has been diagnosed with a yolk-sac tumour, a very rare form of stomach cancer that can only be treated at Anderson Cancer Centre. No other hospital in the world can provide the combination of localised chemotherapy and surgery that the little girl needs. Leah’s story has touched the hearts of thousands. She was healthy until...