Right from the word go, Hobday adopted a positive attitude to his diagnosis. "The reality is every day I'm looking death in the eye riding a horse," he told CNN. "The way I tell myself is that people have this every single day and I'm no different to them so you pick yourself up and get on with it."
The 27-year-old poses with friends during his chemotherapy treatment.
Ben Hobday
Hobday was also determined to smile as much as he could through his treatment, making light of hair loss by donning a wig and posting other uplifting updates on Instagram.
Ben Hobday
"It feels like 15 days of having petrol pumped into you," Hobday said of his chemotherapy treatment. "It is the only way I can describe it."