{"id":197140,"date":"2026-05-19T22:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T22:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/197140\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T22:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T22:20:10","slug":"pennsylvania-candidate-stays-in-congressional-race-after-cancer-diagnosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/197140\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania candidate stays in congressional race after cancer diagnosis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tALA STANFORD, A PEDIATRIC SURGEON, SURGEON, PENNSYLVANIA CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATE, PLANS TO STAY IN THE RACE EVEN AFTER A PROSTATE CANCER DIAGNOSIS. ALLEN BRADSTOCK, A DEMOCRAT RUNNING IN PENNSYLVANIA\u2019S 14TH DISTRICT, SAID THE DIAGNOSIS WAS CAUGHT EARLY AND THAT HE HAS A TREATMENT PLAN IN PLACE. THE 62 YEAR OLD FORMER ARMY SERVICE MEMBER AND LONGTIME FBI AGENT IS RUNNIN\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Pennsylvania candidate stays in congressional race after cancer diagnosis<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1769026991_958_wgal.png\" class=\"lazyload lazyload-in-view branding\" alt=\"WGAL logo\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tUpdated: 5:53 PM EDT May 19, 2026\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wgal.com\/article\/hearst-television-news-policy-statements\/14471973\" class=\"editorial-standards border-left\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Editorial Standards \u24d8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tA Pennsylvania congressional candidate plans to continue his campaign despite being diagnosed with prostate cancer.  Alan Bradstock, a Democrat running in Pennsylvania&#8217;s 14th District, said the diagnosis was caught early and that he has a treatment plan in place.  The 62-year-old former Army servicemember and longtime FBI agent is running to represent parts of southwestern Pennsylvania, including Washington and Fayette counties.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>A Pennsylvania congressional candidate plans to continue his campaign despite being diagnosed with prostate cancer.  <\/p>\n<p>Alan Bradstock, a Democrat running in Pennsylvania&#8217;s 14th District, said the diagnosis was caught early and that he has a treatment plan in place.  <\/p>\n<p>\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\" aspect-ratio-original lazyload lazyload-in-view\" alt=\"a pennsylvania congressional candidate plans to continue his campaign despite being diagnosed with prostate cancer.\" title=\"Alan Bradstock\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/bcdd7079-476e-45ce-be3e-fb32b18a3b24.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tHearst OwnedWGAL\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAlan Bradstock<\/p>\n<p>The 62-year-old former Army servicemember and longtime FBI agent is running to represent parts of southwestern Pennsylvania, including Washington and Fayette counties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALA STANFORD, A PEDIATRIC SURGEON, SURGEON, PENNSYLVANIA CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATE, PLANS TO STAY IN THE RACE EVEN AFTER A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197141,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[87534,87535,87536,10093,22623,66205,87539,10898,87537,17080,2298,87540,539,6016,28,87541,87538,30,29,5608,48635,14605,87542,437],"class_list":["post-197140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-14th-district","tag-62-year-old-former-army-servicemember","tag-alan-bradstock","tag-campaign","tag-cancer-diagnosis","tag-congressional-race","tag-continuing-campaign","tag-democrat","tag-democrat-running-in-pennsylvanias-14th-district","tag-democratic-candidate","tag-fayette-county","tag-longtime-fbi-agent","tag-pa","tag-part","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-candidate","tag-pennsylvania-congressional-candidate","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-place","tag-prostate-cancer","tag-southwestern-pennsylvania","tag-treatment-plan","tag-washington-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}