{"id":788384,"date":"2026-10-01T09:16:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T09:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/788384\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T09:16:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T09:16:10","slug":"the-sheffield-cancer-patient-helping-others-return-to-fitness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/788384\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sheffield cancer patient helping others return to fitness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A woman from Sheffield has set up an exercise class to help other cancer patients overcome the barriers to regaining their fitness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Joanne Graham was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2024 and, following a mastectomy and reconstructive surgery, also had her ovaries removed. She struggled to find a fitness class that she felt comfortable with.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Backed by the Weston Park Cancer Charity, the 51-year-old fitness instructor started her own sessions for patients at the Zest Community Centre in Upperthorpe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said: &#8220;I was nervous about rehabbing myself but when I looked into it, it wasn&#8217;t that easy to find someone qualified to do it and anybody available, so I decided to launch the course myself.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Graham said: &#8220;I&#8217;ve been through it myself, so any questions that they&#8217;ve got, I&#8217;ve already been there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve had the surgery, I understand the joint pains, the tablets, the medication&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I know how difficult it is to get back to doing what you could do before.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman from Sheffield has set up an exercise class to help other cancer patients overcome the barriers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":788385,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[6647,102,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-788384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fitness","tag-fitness","tag-health","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788384","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=788384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/788385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}