{"id":314257,"date":"2026-02-24T06:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T06:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/314257\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T06:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T06:28:08","slug":"id-never-heard-of-pancreatic-cancer-until-mammy-was-diagnosed-with-it-its-a-very-cruel-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/314257\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I\u2019d never heard of pancreatic cancer until Mammy was diagnosed with it. It\u2019s a very cruel disease\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nOlivia Maher, who lost her mum to the disease last year, advises people to go to the doctor as soon as they notice anything unusual\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"'She had always been so full of life and suddenly she seemed to start slipping away'. Photo: Frank McGrath\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ebe6dfef-2e6f-4937-ae32-b250670f8ed3.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">&#8216;She had always been so full of life and suddenly she seemed to start slipping away&#8217;. Photo: Frank McGrath<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Each year around 600 people are diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in Ireland \u2013 and while the figures are relatively low, so too are the survival rates, with only around 10pc of patients surviving beyond five years of diagnosis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Mum-of-two Olivia Maher knows only too well how aggressive pancreatic cancer be, as her beloved mother Goretti lost her battle with the disease last September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Olivia Maher, who lost her mum to the disease last year, advises people to go to the doctor&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314258,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[103,61,60,59303],"class_list":["post-314257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-living-with-cancer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}