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Shortly before his 44th birthday, the late John Diamond received the news that a lump he'd been assured was a benign cyst was, in fact, cancerous. This is a witty but compelling story of one man's view of his cancer and its treatment.

John Diamond, who died on March 1st, was one of Britain's most prolific journalists, columnists and broadcasters, having worked for most of the national papers and presented numerous radio and television series. For seven years he wrote an immensely popular weekly column in The Times which, since his diagnosis with cancer, was given over to following the disease's progress. As well as gaining him a Columnist of the Year award it resulted in an avalanche of mail from tens of thousands of his readers. John lived in West London and was married to fellow columnist and bestselling author Nigella Lawson with whom he had two children.