Oklahoma - Brain cancer survivor fights to keep 'F CANCR' license plate

A man who has a licence plate that read 'F Cancer' has been told to remove it from his car as people find it offensive.

Nick Williams has vowed to fight the demand to remove the vanity plate that he says inspires him to keep on fighting the disease.

Officials with the Oklahoma state Tax Commission said the phrase was vulgar and asked him to remove the vanity plate.

But 32-year-old Williams, who has survived brain cancer, insists the F stands for the word fight and not a four letter profanity.

He said: 'My "F" - it stands for fight. Some people look at it as a different word, but I'm fighting brain cancer. I've had it for about two and half years now.'

The father of one said he can't understand how people can take offence from the licence plate.

He said the plate, just like the scar on his head from his life saving operation, is a badge of honour that he has had the disease and still fighting it.

Nick, who has a five year old son Kameron, was diagnosed with brain cancer over two years ago.

He underwent surgery and chemotherapy, but says he is still not clear of the disease.

'When I had my surgery, they got 60 percent of it. The other 40 percent was entwined in my brain,' he said.

Nick said he has refused to give in to the disease and has been supported by his wife and son Kameron.

'If it wasn't for him and my wife, I probably would have gave up a long time ago, really,' Williams said.

When Nick said he was told to remove the plate he spoke with officials at the Tax Commission who told him they had received numerous complaints.

'After I told him what the plates said and everything, he got offensive, kind of. He said, "Oh, I get complaints all the time,"' Williams said.

Williams told his local TV station he understands that strangers may confuse the license plate at first, but like the scar on the side of his head, he says it's a symbol of pride that he chooses to wear proudly.

'I used to try and cover it up with a hat. I tried to let my hair grow out, but it was so patchy it just never worked,' Williams said.

Williams plans to call the Tax Commission explain his situation to a supervisor in an attempt to keep the licence plate.