Overview
- Ambrose went public for the first time at Friday’s Pirtek Legends Night, using the platform to champion organ donation.
- He was diagnosed in mid-2023 with stage-four colorectal cancer that had spread to his liver and was initially deemed inoperable and terminal.
- Aggressive chemotherapy reduced the disease enough to permit surgeries and a full liver transplant, a pathway reported as among the rarest in Australia.
- He relocated from Tasmania to Sydney to await a donor, staying within an hour of the hospital with his phone on at all times during the wait.
- Roughly 12 months post-transplant, he reports feeling healthy, thanks his family and medical teams, and helped direct event proceeds to Donate Life, including the first $10,000 from the auction.