{"id":362100,"date":"2026-03-24T06:49:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T06:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/362100\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T06:49:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T06:49:09","slug":"throat-cancer-the-open-mask-made-my-radiotherapy-bearable-some-people-stop-treatment-because-they-cant-bear-the-closed-mask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/362100\/","title":{"rendered":"Throat cancer: \u2018The open mask made my radiotherapy bearable \u2013 some people stop treatment because they can\u2019t bear the closed mask\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\">\nHospital chaplain Manus Ferry availed of a clinical trial using a new open radiotherapy mask that enables patients to see out during treatment and was delighted to learn that his treatment worked. He is telling his story to help others\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Manus Ferry from Blackrock hopes the story of his cancer journey will be of help to others. Photo: Steve Humphreys\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IH MANUS FERRY 2SH.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)\">Manus Ferry from Blackrock hopes the story of his cancer journey will be of help to others. Photo: Steve Humphreys<\/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)\">Manus Ferry (52) works as a chaplain in Tallaght Hospital, meaning \u201cI\u2019m dealing with sickness and death all around me.\u201d<\/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)\">Some years ago, he had his own brush with both when he was diagnosed with cancer in his leg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hospital chaplain Manus Ferry availed of a clinical trial using a new open radiotherapy mask that enables patients&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362101,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[103,61,60,898,60422,29782,128197,128198],"class_list":["post-362100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news-ticker","tag-news-in-90-seconds","tag-service-journalism","tag-shp","tag-signature-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362100","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=362100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}