{"id":29138,"date":"2025-07-28T17:06:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T17:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/29138\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T17:06:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T17:06:09","slug":"fundraiser-set-up-for-micky-higham-following-cancer-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/29138\/","title":{"rendered":"Fundraiser set up for Micky Higham following cancer return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  In June, the former hooker who counts St Helens, Warrington Wolves, Wigan Warriors and hometown club Leigh among his former clubs during a 500-game career was diagnosed with widespread stage four cancer after discovering a lump on his lower back.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  It is the second such diagnosis for the 44-year-old, who had fought off stage three melanoma in 2022, but now his family are calling on the rugby league community for support.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A JustGiving page has been set up for donations towards the family and potential access to promising clinical trials in Europe, with no such options available in the UK.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  At the time of writing, more than \u00a323,000 of donations had been pledged with an initial target of \u00a325,000 looking set to be beaten.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A fundraising walk is also due to take place on Sunday, August 24, with full details to be confirmed in due course.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justgiving.com\/crowdfunding\/emma-worrall-2?utm_medium=CR&amp;fbclid=IwY2xjawL0FgVleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETFqVzBaYUNHWjNqc3VtSzBaAR5ttQawKFE-e7-Ysg2kOVOLkgjPnPbV5JQXNYk50qKhRfHt8HO_rXW-WFe-Ag_aem_cYbPsYJ63yAYltpOaQrffg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION AND TO DONATE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In June, the former hooker who counts St Helens, Warrington Wolves, Wigan Warriors and hometown club Leigh among&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29139,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-29138","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}