I am writing in response to your story about spending on cancer treatment (Oxford Mail, November 27).

My son, Jamie Nicklin, was diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphoma in May, 2004 at the age of 20.

He was treated by Chris Hatton and his team at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford for more than three years until nine weeks ago when he sadly lost his brave fight with the cruel disease.

Jamie had just made his 24th birthday, but not his first wedding anniversary.

He will not be here to see the birth of his twins, due in April, that he desperately wanted after successful IVF treatment. I would not normally respond to a story, but I find it increasingly frustrating that all the articles appearing in the news have been so negative about the NHS and the money spent.

From the first day that Jamie was diagnosed, he received nothing but the best from Mr Hatton and his team.

Everything was done to make him well and there was never a time when the cost came into the decision of whether he was given certain drugs.

Not only was Jamie looked after by the JR nurses and doctors, but they also cared about him and also about us, his family.

If people would like to moan about the cancer spend at the JR, that is their choice, but I know that everything was done to help my son and felt that a positive point of view would not go amiss.

PAULINE NICKLIN Bicester