Gibbs announces she's "CANCER FREE!"

Nicole Gibbs has had the cancer in the roof of her mouth successfully removed, she announced on social media on Thursday.

"Margins were clear and I am currently cancer free!!" Gibbs wrote in a note posted to Twitter and Instagram, alongside a smiling picture.

She added that the cancer was rediagnosed as sclerosing microcystic adenocarcinoma. "Fun Fact: there are only a handful of known cases of this cancer, and I'm the first documented case to to occur in the roof of the mouth," she wrote, tacking on an upside-down-happy-face emoji.

Gibbs also said that, because of complications, she still needs to use a feeding tube—"if I were to try to swallow water, some would leak out me nose - gross, I know."

This means she'll have to delay her comeback, which was initially set for Wimbledon qualifying.

"Back as soon as I can be," Gibbs signed off, to an outpouring of supportive comments.

She underwent the surgery on May 17.