{"id":809829,"date":"2026-10-22T01:22:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T01:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/809829\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T01:22:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T01:22:13","slug":"archie-goodburn-cancer-campaigner-to-deliver-scotland-australia-match-ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/809829\/","title":{"rendered":"Archie Goodburn: Cancer campaigner to deliver Scotland-Australia match ball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Goodburn, who played blindside flanker at Stewart&#8217;s-Melville College before concentrating on his present sport, was diagnosed with a rare brain tumour, known as an oligodendroglioma, in 2024 and has since returned to competitive swimming following surgery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Supporters at Murrayfield will have the chance to donate to two charities leading the fight to help those with brain cancer &#8211; Brain Tumour Research and the Astro Brain Tumour Fund.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This cause is so important to my heart,&#8221; Goodburn added. &#8220;Brain cancer is the biggest cancer killer of those aged under-40 in the UK and, for some 25 years, it has received less than 2% of the national cancer budget.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Things are beginning to move and this kind of initiative can make a difference.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Goodburn, who played blindside flanker at Stewart&#8217;s-Melville College before concentrating on his present sport, was diagnosed with a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":809830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[59,102,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-809829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-gb","tag-health","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809829","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=809829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/809830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=809829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=809829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=809829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}