Ryan Knight shares news about Mark Grentell's cancer battle

Now, friend of the show, one of your really good mates, and your brother-in-law, Mark Grantall, who everyone knows him around, obviously from starting up Friday Live.

Yeah, incredibly prolific performer, writer.

Backyard Ashes, the merger, plus everything else.

Jeez, he's having a rough time of it.

He's been diagnosed with a glioblastoma, which is an aggressive form of brain cancer.

I guess the first question is, how's he going and what's going on?

Yeah, look, Mark's going really well.

He's had an operation to have part of the tumour, 98% of the tumour removed.

So he's in recovery from that.

That was about two weeks ago now, nearly three weeks.

And then from there, he starts his treatment, which will be radiation and chemo next week.

So he's got a week off this week to try and recover with his family, where we're actually all already had a pre-organised holiday away, which is timed really well.

Yeah.

So we're going to go out on Kiama and hang down there all together as a family and get ready for the next part of this fight.

Fantastic.

It seems like it's all happened very suddenly.

What's the sort of timeline been from the course of kind of finding out to surgery?

Yeah, it was really sudden actually, Jamie.

So he was just a little bit off for a couple of weeks, but It didn't really seem like anything like a viral thing.

And then one morning he woke up on a Sunday morning and he was quite sick, had a headache and a little bit of vomiting and stuff.

And then, yeah, they went down to check it out at hospital.

And credit to Wagga Hospital, they've worked out pretty quickly that they needed a scan, found out that there was a tumour and then he was flown by helicopter off to Sydney straight away from there.

It took a little while to have the operation after that while they, you know, scanned him and come up with a plan of attack.

But that happened about a week later.

So it was all very sudden for the family and yeah, for everyone involved.