Leah discharged from US cancer hospital

Leah Xuereb has been discharged from hospital after receiving successful treatment for cancer in the US and on Wednesday will be on a plane bound for Malta. The toddler’s parents are exhausted but relieved as doctors have informed them that Leah, who spent half her life in hospital, will not need chemotherapy anymore. “We’re leaving the US on Tuesday. We’ve gone through a lot, but when we were given the good news we forgot everything and a sense of relief overcame us. We had to suffer, true, but at least it was all for a good cause. The operation was tough, but it was also a miracle,” her father Jonathan told The Sunday Times. Mr Xuereb added that Leah did not need antibiotics and painkillers anymore, and the doctors informed them she would not have to have chemotherapy because the operation had gone well. On November 12, she underwent a complicated 12-hour surgery in a specialised Texas hospital to remove a very rare form of stomach cancer, after previous treatment in London failed. The doctors were always confident that they had removed the entire tumour, but in the following weeks she battled infection and fluctuating temperatures and the doctors could not give the go-ahead...