DEATH & DYING: Alan Jones confronts cancer

Yesterday, Alan Jones called a press conference to announce that, like many men of his age (he's supposedly around 65), he had prostate cancer. He will temporarily quit 2GB to undergo surgery at St Vincent's Hospital on July 18. "I won't be away for all that long but it will be weeks, it won't be months," he said. "You lie around and you wither."

Jones pointed out that millions of people were worse off than himself but the main thing was to remain positive. "As I said to someone the other day, we don't do dying around here, we just try and make the most of living," he said. SMH 4 Jul 2008