{"id":389171,"date":"2026-03-17T06:44:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T06:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/389171\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T06:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T06:44:10","slug":"mammy-do-you-have-cancer-my-son-asked-that-day-i-bawled-my-eyes-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/389171\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018\u201cMammy, do you have cancer?\u201d my son asked \u2013 that day I bawled my eyes out\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Amanda Broaders had two children and was just 34 when diagnosed with breast cancer\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Amanda Broaders. Photo: Patrick Browne\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/II AMANDA006.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Amanda Broaders. Photo: Patrick Browne<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The message from Amanda Broaders is clear: \u201cListen to your body and advocate for yourself if you think that there\u2019s something wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">With a family history of breast cancer, Ms Broaders wasted no time in contacting her GP after finding a suspicious lump.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amanda Broaders had two children and was just 34 when diagnosed with breast cancer Amanda Broaders. Photo: Patrick&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389172,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[177058,50794,18,135,19,17,21535],"class_list":{"0":"post-389171","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-daffodil-day","9":"tag-deirdre-barry","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-health","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-living-with-cancer"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116243167461793618","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}