Until last, Melbourne man Mr. David Hall was totally unaware of the illness that he was suffering from but yes during that time he definitely felt some gritty sensation between his fingers.

Soon by the end of the week, doctors performed brain surgery on him, and he is absolutely fine today.

Mr. Hall was actually suffering from brain cancer due to which, he used to feel that gritty sensation between his fingers. His tumor was in a part of the brain's sensory cortex which controls sensation and feeling on the opposite side of the body.

On Tuesday, he became second Australian with brain cancer who underwent a neurosurgery by the surgeons and was aided by a drug known as Gliolan, which was used in the surgery to give his cancerous tissue a fluorescent red glow to remove the tumor.

"It's a second chance, it is," Mr. Hall told reporters at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. "I wasn't even aware that I had a problem until I ended up here, and before I knew it, I was operated on", he added.

Australia has only two hospitals in the region, Royal Melbourne Hospital and Brisbane's Wesley Hospital, which use the drug Gliolan to aide brain tumor.