I checked this book out of the library as I developed a bladder cancer about a year and a half ago. Lehman had a far more serious problem than I did as he had a Stage 4 cancer, and mine was a Stage 2. He developed his cancer story gradually, and is interspersed with with a fabulous number of nuggets from his literary life being a poet. His is a battle joined in by his wife. He writes one hundred chapter, hence the title, maybe 40-45 pertaining directly to his own autobiography (maybe memoir isa more correct word. To give an idea, I can list the titles ending in "8".
8 The Procedure (doctor tells him speaking small)
18 Good Friday (4th day of Passover - visit by ward psychologist)
28 A FewbBacons in the Quicksand (about his ancestors, some Jewish refugees)
38 The End (a poem about Graham Greene's death and Ithaca NY)
48 "Myself, When Stoned" (on Orwell, Ashberg, and Trilling
58 Life Begins at Forty (Temporary discharge from the hospital, and musing on his life in 1988)
68 The Patient Next to You (His private room becomes two person and finds he ha s to have a test redone)
78 Moscow, 2007 (record of visit)
88 Heisenberg as Hero (in hospital, thoughts of Heisenberg as acid name, plus more
98 In the Eyes of the Beholder (urologist: No Cancer) ( )