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At my age, I don't think anyone is untouched by cancer.

There was endometrial tissue outside of where it belonged, and the cancer developed from that.

Cancer is very chaotic.

Millions of people die every day. Everyone's got to go sometime. I've came by this particular tumor honestly. If you smoke, which I did for many years very heavily with occasional interruption, and if you use alcohol, you make yourself a candidate for it in your sixties.

In a way, cancer is so simple and so natural. The older you get, this is just one of the things that happens as the clock ticks.

Until you expose the cancer, you can't fix it.

When you see a tumour in the brain, it's an ugly looking thing. It's kind of black, grisly and messy. Or it can be white. To see it taken away is just amazing.

I will forever be grateful to my oncologist for opening the door and saying, 'Damn it, the tumor's 10 percent bigger,' before he even said hello.

There's nothing sexy about cancer.

It's not at all good when your cancer is 'palpable' from the outside. Especially when, as at this stage, they didn't even know where the primary source was. Carcinoma works cunningly from the inside out. Detection and treatment often work more slowly and gropingly, from the outside in.