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Alan Jones has opened up about his battle with cancer.
The Australian broadcasting star, who has been fighting a brain tumour since December 2008, said that he was nervous before undergoing a four-hour operation to remove the mass in his brain.
Jones told Woman's Day magazine: "I thought about my brain and how close this operation was to the action. The surgeons were coming within a millimetre of the speech centre, and while some people would be happy if they'd edged a little closer, I was apprehensive."
He also revealed that he didn't think of himself when he spoke at the funeral of the wife of cricketer Glenn McGrath soon after his diagnosis, saying: "The day of Jane's funeral, all I thought about was Glenn. It sounds stupid, but my cancer didn't bother me.
"I had world-class doctors looking after me and I'm philosophical - if it was my time, then I've had a fair innings and been given a lot of opportunities. My message was that we don't do dying around here."
The Australian broadcasting star, who has been fighting a brain tumour since December 2008, said that he was nervous before undergoing a four-hour operation to remove the mass in his brain.
Jones told Woman's Day magazine: "I thought about my brain and how close this operation was to the action. The surgeons were coming within a millimetre of the speech centre, and while some people would be happy if they'd edged a little closer, I was apprehensive."
He also revealed that he didn't think of himself when he spoke at the funeral of the wife of cricketer Glenn McGrath soon after his diagnosis, saying: "The day of Jane's funeral, all I thought about was Glenn. It sounds stupid, but my cancer didn't bother me.
"I had world-class doctors looking after me and I'm philosophical - if it was my time, then I've had a fair innings and been given a lot of opportunities. My message was that we don't do dying around here."
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