Super-fit James Smith said he always thought of himself as physically invincible. So when he was told he had testicular cancer at the age of just 28 he admitted it felt like his body had let him down.
In October last year he said he felt a dull ache and his wife Georgia, who he'd married just three months earlier, urged him to go to the GP to get it checked out. Within eight hours of seeing a doctor he received the life-changing diagnosis.
"It all happened really fast," he recalled. "It sounds cliché but it really can happen to anyone. I just knew I had to face it - I had no other choice."
