Christian Leali'ifano says his journey to full health remains ongoing after making his rugby comeback with the Brumbies 10 months after being diagnosed with leukaemia.
The star five-eighth joined the action after 50 minutes of the Brumbies' exhibition match against the Asia-Pacific Dragons on Thursday night in Singapore.
"My journey is very much an ongoing process and I am mindful of taking each day as it comes," Leali'ifano said in a statement.
"It was fantastic to get back onto the field and play some rugby after such a long lay-off. This is another step in the recovery process and it felt good to be on the field and fully involved again. I am concentrating totally on my recovery and my rugby at the moment and my focus is on helping the team and trying to get back to full health and my best as a rugby player."
Lealiifano, who has 19 Wallabies caps, kicked five conversions in the Brumbies' 61-14 victory.
Leali'ifano received a bone marrow transplant as part of his treatment, seven months ago, and his return to action will spark hopes that he can figure either in the Brumbies' finals campaign or their two remaining Super Rugby fixtures. It has already inspired teammates, with scrumhalf Tomas Cubelli declaring on social media that "superheroes exist".
With Cubelli also making his comeback from a pre-season knee injury, Brumbies prop Scott Sio paid tribute on Instagram.
The Brumbies will host a sudden-death final on July 21 after sealing the Australian conference before the June Test break.
Meanwhile, former Brumbies coach Laurie Fisher will re-join the club next year as an assistant to Dan McKellar, as the post-Stephen Larkham era begins to take shape. Larkham will leave at the end of the season to take up a full-time assistant role at the Wallabies, with forwards coach McKellar his successor. Fisher, who led the Brumbies between 2005 and 2008 as well as co-coaching the club with Larkham in 2014, finished a three-year stint with Gloucester earlier in the season.