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BBC<\/p>\nBBC<\/p>\n
S4C presenter Mari Grug has been diagnosed with stage 4 metastatic breast cancer<\/p>\n
A TV presenter has described how she has had to fight for treatment and scans as she battles breast cancer. <\/p>\n
Mari Grug, 41, from Mynachlog-ddu in Pembrokeshire, was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2023 and it has spread to her liver and lymph nodes, which means it’s metastatic<\/a>.<\/p>\n Ahead of a documentary on S4C on Sunday, Mari, who appears on shows such as Heno<\/a> and Prynhawn Da<\/a>, called her journey a “battle”.<\/p>\n Hywel Dda University Health Board said it’s always open to discussing treatment with patients.<\/p>\n Mari has had both of her breasts removed and continues to have chemotherapy treatment every three weeks.<\/p>\n “I thought, you hear the word cancer and they’re on it, you will be treated,” she said.<\/p>\n “Yes, I have been treated, but I have had to fight for operations and I’m still fighting now for some scans.<\/p>\n “I have had to battle and challenge, been on the phone constantly. Not everyone has the energy to ring and to hassle.”<\/p>\n She added: “That’s the main shock I’ve had following my diagnosis.”<\/p>\n Mari Grug’s family have visited her during hospital stays<\/p>\n Mari has documented her journey for a programme called ‘Mari Grug: Un dydd ar y tro (Mari Grug: One day at a time) to raise awareness.<\/p>\n As a mother to three young children she said she wanted to live for “as long as possible”.<\/p>\n “Thinking about not being here for them breaks my heart. That’s what makes it difficult,” she said.<\/p>\n “When I was given the diagnosis that the cancer had spread, I was told ‘there’s not much we can do except for palliative care’. That was a blow.<\/p>\n “But in reality, this type of care has developed so much. Perhaps the terminology needs to change, because when someone hears that word at the start, it’s very upsetting.”<\/p>\n Mari (left) and her sister, Lisa (right), have both been diagnosed with breast cancer<\/p>\n Mari said her younger sister, Lisa, was diagnosed with breast cancer last year.<\/p>\n “Unfortunately, Lisa was diagnosed last year. My younger sister, both of us have a faulty rad-51 gene,” she said.<\/p>\n “It’s been a really difficult time for the family. But, we’ve been able to help each other.”<\/p>\n She said it was her “duty” to raise awareness about the disease.<\/p>\n “One in two of us will get cancer. One in seven will get breast cancer,” she said.<\/p>\n Mari continues to have chemotherapy treatment every three weeks<\/p>\n She added: “The documentary is Mari Grug – the mother, the wife, the daughter, the sister – and obviously the presenter which is a very big part of my life.<\/p>\n “All the emotions are there, throughout the documentary, and hopefully people will appreciate that.”<\/p>\n Mari said she will continue to have treatment until it stops working.<\/p>\n Hywel Dda health board’s Sharon Daniel said: “We are always open to receiving feedback and to discussing a patient’s treatment with them, to offer reassurance and consider alternatives. <\/p>\n “We see every one of our patients as an individual and we do our best to offer them the care they need to support them on the road to recovery.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BBC S4C presenter Mari Grug has been diagnosed with stage 4 metastatic breast cancer A TV presenter has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98253,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[458,146,85,46],"class_list":["post-98252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Mari](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/6f8cb6d0-b0d9-11f0-b2a1-6f537f66f9aa.png.webp.webp\")
Mari Grug<\/p>\n![\"Mari](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/f1d4f010-b0c7-11f0-a624-a701f0c6125b.jpg.webp.webp\")
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Tinopolis \/ S4C<\/p>\n