Melbourne president Jim Stynes has received some positives news on his fight against cancer with his brain operation deemed a 'big success'.
Stynes underwent another round of surgery in Melbourne on Thursday, just weeks after thinking his time was up.
A change in medicine gave the Irishman some renewed hope with this latest operation removing more cancerous tissue from the 45-year-old's brain.
In an update posted on Facebook, surgeon Jeffrey Rosenfeld, who performed the operation, said he was 'ecstatic' with how it went.
"Jim has just come out of surgery for the removal of a brain tumour and is in recovery," the update said.
"Professor Rosenfeld who performed the surgery is ecstatic saying they got a big removal/clearance rate on the tumour without any damage."
"All in all, looks like a big success."
"(Wife) Sam is by his side as usual. Thanks to everyone for your well wishes and prayers. We all love you big guy."
Earlier this week, the Brownlow Medalist told media he had all but given up hope before he showed signs of improvement due to a change in medicine, which resulted in one of the tumours halving in size.
"I've been pretty good. I was sort of written off there not too long ago and now I've been given another crack," Stynes said on Monday.
"The doctors saw something they didn't see a few weeks ago so they got some more medicine that will keep me going for a little bit more."
"They started something new and they didn't think it was going to work and now they think it might."
"I'm taking a lot of different medications and they've been playing around with a few bits and pieces, some of it seems to be working."
"One of the tumours halved in size and that was unexpected, we only found that out about a week ago, so that was a real surprise."
"I thought we were done and dusted, but they've decided there's something else they can do so I'm gonna go in and have another brain operation and hopefully that will give me some more time."