For Amar Das, a poor cancer patient, struggling to make both ends meet, treatment in a private hospital was a luxury. However, thanks to the gesture of good Samaritans and Mohali based Ivy Hospital, he is on his way to recovery following a major surgery here today. In fact, the rare tongue cancer surgery performed by a team of doctors, led by Dr. Vijay Bansal, at Ivy Hospital and Cancer Research Institute, Mohali, gave a new lease of life to Amar Das, a daily wage worker at a co-operative bank in Ranwa village in Fatehgarh Sahib district. The complicated six hour operation involved surgical removal of cancer mass and 50 nodes from the upper neck and shoulder region, which could have caused dysfunction in several organs, Dr. Bansal, who was earlier with Tata cancer Hospital, Mumbai, said here today.