A cancer diagnosis can strike at any time and in any setting - including in prison. Each year, an estimated 300 inmates in New South Wales will be diagnosed with the disease while in custody, adding complex layers of challenges to what is already a life-changing experience. At a minimum-security prison on the outskirts of Sydney, Michael (not his real name) describes what it was like to receive such news. “I was shocked," he says. “It was pretty much all through my body, in my spine, in my hips, in my head. It's a blood cancer but it seeped into the bones."