{"id":395746,"date":"2026-04-13T05:23:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T05:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/395746\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T05:23:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T05:23:10","slug":"stage-4-melanoma-i-was-diagnosed-with-stage-4-cancer-in-2011-and-given-nine-months-i-have-been-in-remission-since-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/395746\/","title":{"rendered":"Stage 4 Melanoma: \u2018I was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer in 2011 and given nine months. I have been in remission since 2016\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\">\nMultiple surgeries, devastating recurrences and setbacks marked Maria Kilcommins\u2019 battle with cancer \u2013 but immunotherapy treatment has made all the difference to her prognosis\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Maria Kilcommins at home in Cork. She was diagnosed with stage 4 melanoma in 2011. Photo: Daragh Mc Sweeney\/Provision\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/V 010426 Kilcomm 14.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)\">Maria Kilcommins at home in Cork. She was diagnosed with stage 4 melanoma in 2011. Photo: Daragh Mc Sweeney\/Provision<\/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)\">Maria Kilcommins was \u201cjust living life as normal\u201d with \u201cno symptoms whatsoever\u201d of cancer when she experienced a seizure on December 19, 2011.<\/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)\">The mother of four, then 38 \u2013 who lives in Charleville, Co Cork, where she grew up \u2013 was at home with her four children. At the time, her eldest was 12, her youngest was only nine months old.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Multiple surgeries, devastating recurrences and setbacks marked Maria Kilcommins\u2019 battle with cancer \u2013 but immunotherapy treatment has made&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[103,61,60,898,29782,128197,128198],"class_list":["post-395746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news-ticker","tag-service-journalism","tag-shp","tag-signature-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395746","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=395746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}