{"id":94003,"date":"2025-10-21T04:48:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T04:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/94003\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T04:48:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T04:48:09","slug":"living-without-a-stomach-is-hard-but-i-am-glad-to-have-eliminated-my-cancer-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/94003\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Living without a stomach is hard but I am glad to have eliminated my cancer risk\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\">\nWhen Kevin Kennedy discovered he had a gene that left him at high risk of developing stomach cancer \u2013 which claimed the life of his mother \u2013 he had to have a surgery to remove his stomach and adapt to a new way of life\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Kevin Kennedy: \u2018If I could talk to the pre-surgery me, I would tell him not to live in fear.\u2019 Photo: Ray Ryan\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/y Cancer victim 941.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)\">Kevin Kennedy: \u2018If I could talk to the pre-surgery me, I would tell him not to live in fear.\u2019 Photo: Ray Ryan<\/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)\">In 1997, at just five years of age, Kevin Kennedy and his two brothers, were faced with the death of their mother, who was 36 years old and had only recently been diagnosed with advanced stomach 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)\">The mother of three was only sick for a short while before she died and her middle son says that although he doesn\u2019t have very many memories of her, losing this important person, who was known to have had a \u201cgreat sense of humour\u201d and was \u201can absolute lady\u201d was life changing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Kevin Kennedy discovered he had a gene that left him at high risk of developing stomach cancer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[103,61,60,59303],"class_list":["post-94003","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\/94003","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=94003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}