{"id":372470,"date":"2026-03-30T05:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T05:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/372470\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T05:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T05:22:09","slug":"i-had-blood-in-my-stool-i-had-pains-but-i-just-ploughed-on-bowel-cancer-patient-on-being-too-embarrassed-to-get-checked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/372470\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I had blood in my stool. I had pains, but I just ploughed on\u2019 \u2013 bowel cancer patient on being too embarrassed to get checked"},"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\">Busy chef Ciaran Cunningham says being afraid to talk to your GP about toilet habits could make treatment far more difficult \u2013 or worse\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ciaran Cunningham marks Bowel Cancer Awareness Month\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/41dc915d-1e1e-404f-b5ff-6b921a4e7cc8.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)\">Ciaran Cunningham marks Bowel Cancer Awareness Month<\/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)\">A busy executive chef has told how embarrassment about symptoms led to him delay seeking diagnosis of bowel cancer.<\/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)\">Ciaran Cunningham, who lives in Kildare and works in CityWest Hotel, Dublin, oversees 7,000 meals a day \u2013 breakfasts, lunches and dinners \u2013 looking after asylum-seekers and refugees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Busy chef Ciaran Cunningham says being afraid to talk to your GP about toilet habits could make treatment&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372471,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[4593,103,61,60,59303],"class_list":{"0":"post-372470","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-eilish-oregan","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-living-with-cancer"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372470","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=372470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}