Beppe Fenech Adami is learning to do everything with his left hand after his right shoulder blade was “literally sawn off” and removed together with a 15cm tumour, but this is not his major concern.

“My biggest worry is ensuring the cancer has been contained.

“It remains the nightmare of whoever is, or has already been, in my situation,” the 45-year-old told The Sunday Times of Malta from his hotel room in London.

The Nationalist Party deputy leader, who returns to Malta tomorrow, underwent a major operation last Monday to remove a malignant tumour as big as a “ftira” that was running “like a creeper” through his ribs.

The four-and-a-half hour operation, which followed a five-week radiotherapy programme to treat and consolidate the tumour, was a success but it meant sacrificing mobility in his right arm, although he hopes to recover some of that with physiotherapy.

See Dr Fenech Adami's candid comments after cancer surgery on The Sunday Times of Malta and the e-paper on timesofmalta.com.

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