Back row forward Alexandre Bias signed for French Top 14 side Brive for a second time on Wednesday after battling against Hodgkins disease.
The 30-year-old who was diagnosed in 2009 with the disease which is a cancer that affects the lymph glands, had been on trial with Brive since the beginning of the end of last season and did enough to convince the club to reward him with a one-year contract.
"I have been waiting two years for this moment, to sign for a club," said Bias, who was a member of the France team crowned world champions at Under-19 level in 2000.
"I am delighted to return to play for Brive and am impatient to pull on the jersey competitively."
Bias played for Brive from 1999-2002 before moving on to Bourgoin and then Castres in 2004.
Brive also announced that experienced 29-year-old prop Pascal Idieder had had to retire from the sport having failed to recover from a serious vertebra injury in March this year.
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