This is the beautiful moment an 11-year-old girl’s siblings found out she was free of stage four ovarian cancer.
“I’m coming home tonight,” Tirion told them over the phone, calling her family’s home in the Sutherland Shire, south of Sydney, from her hospital bed.
“Is the cancer completely gone?” one of her brothers asked.
“Yes,” Tirion replied, which was met with loud cheers from the siblings gathered around a cell phone on a table over the loudspeaker.
Their ecstatic relief came after battling the deadly disease for almost six months.
“I’m coming home tonight,” Tirion told her siblings (pictured) over the phone, during a call from her hospital bed to her family’s home in the Sutherland Shire, south of Sydney
The siblings of 11-year-old Tirion have shared the incredible moment they discovered she was free from stage four ovarian cancer. Tirion (left) is pictured with her best friend Chloe
Tirion and her best friend Chloe previously made headlines when Chloe shaved off her hair in solidarity and to raise money for the Ovarian Cancer Research Foundation.
“The first thing I said to myself was, ‘I don’t think I’ll meet many friends like Chloe in my life,’ and I was very proud of her,” Tirion told 2GB’s Ben Fordham earlier in May.
“It means a lot to me, if there’s anything I can say to her, it’s on bad days… (she) makes them feel a lot better.”
The fundraising has already raised more than $200,000.
Tirion spoke to Fordham again on Friday morning and said Chloe was ‘speechless’ when told she was now cancer free.
“I was very excited, extremely happy of course, and quite relieved,” Tirion said of the great news.
Her mother, Virginia, said the oncologist said there was no sign of cancer activity anywhere in her daughter’s body.
“Officially the cancer is completely clear,” she said.
Tirion suffered a mild lung infection, but this is a fairly common side effect of chemotherapy in children.
When she was told she was cancer-free, Tirion beamed with “the biggest smile we’ve ever seen,” her mother said.