“I can live with it, but it ain’t going to go away . . . never will. But I can live the way I’m living for the rest of my life, and I’m fine with that. I’m strong enough to do that. But I couldn’t have lived the rest of my life knowing cancer got the best of me.

“If I’m mad at anything in this, it’s that I’m not going to be able to have a son, I’m not going to be able to get married and have my own house. Those are the things I’m mad about. But not dying.”

—John Challis