Then I was concerned by the 'Oh God, not another cancer diary' thing.
When one surgeon suggested that I start a "cancer diary" to help me process the process, I stifled the urge to laugh in his face.
Diski, who died in April, at sixty-eight, began batting at the flock of associations attached to that label shortly after her diagnosis, in 2014, when she started writing what she called "another fucking cancer diary".
An audio diary by teenage cancer survivors and subjects as diverse as life in an inner-city gang and on a remote farm are among the projects planned by Acast, a Swedish podcast platform that received investment of £3.2m in May to develop internationally.
Another f king cancer diary?
Early pioneers to have written newspaper diaries about their cancer include Ruth Picardie, journalist and mother of two, whose Observer column was published as the memoir Before I Say Goodbye after her death in 1997 aged 33 from breast cancer.
I think back to cancer diaries I have read, just because they're there.
You don't seek cancer diaries out, they come at you as you turn the pages of magazines and newspapers or thumb through Twitter and blogs.
The film, The Breast Cancer Diaries, made on a shoe string budget is now in 30 countries and in two languages.
Ann's wholehearted documentary, The Breast Cancer Diaries, chronicled her first fight with the disease as a 30-something with a husband and two small children.
The author Jenny Diski, who had been writing a serialised diary about her inoperable cancer since being diagnosed in 2014, has died.
