Examine Yourself: We hear more stories of survival, let’s be proactive about cancer

DESPITE having lost both my parents at a young age and two aunts I considered to be more like mothers, cancer wasn’t really something I thought a lot about in terms of health worries until we lost close friend and Today FM colleague Tony Fenton in 2015.

Tony, as a person, deserves much more than I can fit into this column, but he was like no one else I have ever met, and I know I will never meet anyone else like him ever again. This included how he lived his life with cancer.