Ivan Noble

Ivan Noble

Ivan Noble (June 1967–January 31, 2005) was a British journalist who worked for BBC News Online and became well known for his diary documenting his fight against cancer.

Born in Leeds, he lived in East Germany working as a translator between 1988 and 1990. He then joined the BBC, originally working for them as a translator, then as a sub-editor in Nairobi, before working in the Science and Technology section of the BBC News website, where he was known for his love of complicated gadgetry.

He was diagnosed with glioblastoma multiforme on August 29, 2002, and wrote about his battle against the cancer on the BBC News website until January 2005. The series was entitled "Tumour Diary." The tumour left him with serious visual impairments on the right side. In December 2004, having completed several courses of chemotherapy, and after a brief remission, his tumour started to grow again. Noble enjoyed a huge amount of public support during this period.

His final comment before his death ended with the statement "I will end with a plea. I still have no idea why I ended up with a cancer, but plenty of other cancer patients know what made them ill...If two or three people stop smoking as a result of anything I have ever written then the one of them who would have got cancer will live and all my scribblings will have been worthwhile."

Noble died in a London hospice aged 37. He was survived by his wife, Almut, and two children (a son and daughter).

Legacy

A book entitled "Like a Hole in the Head" (ISBN 0-340-86428-1), which chronicles Noble's fight with cancer, was released in May 2005. A bursary was established by the BBC in Noble's memory; it will provide annual funding for a newly-qualified journalist to work at the science and technology desk of the BBC News website for six months. The first recipient of this bursary was Rebecca Morelle.

See also

*List of notable brain tumor patients

Quotes

* "Painfully I learned not to mourn the future I might have lost. No-one has their future until it becomes their present."
* "It delights me that I am part of a species so far apparently unique in its ability to create culture and preserve memory. Our marks endure and what ever happens to me, a tiny part will be mine."
* "Cancer succumbs all the time both to the incremental improvements of science and the determination of those of us living and surviving the disease day by day. Cancer will lose and people will win."

External links

* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4211475.stm Tumour Diary] .
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4193093.stm BBC writer Ivan Noble dies at 37, includes a link to a 2004 videotaped interview]
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4207059.stm Ivan Noble: An appreciation]
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/4565205.stm After Ivan] , reflections from his wife
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4562495.stm Bursary memorial for Ivan Noble]


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