{"id":92241,"date":"2025-09-29T08:27:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T08:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/92241\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T08:27:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T08:27:09","slug":"the-person-i-was-last-year-is-nothing-like-the-person-i-am-now-novelist-patricia-scanlan-on-her-shock-breast-cancer-diagnosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/92241\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The person I was last year is nothing like the person I am now\u2019 \u2013 novelist Patricia Scanlan on her shock breast cancer diagnosis"},"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\">Survivor gives reasons to stay optimistic as she says: \u2018It\u2019s not the death sentence it used to be\u2019\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Popular writer and cancer survivor Patricia Scanlan launching the Irish Cancer Society Big Pink Breakfast campaign. Photo: Julien Behal\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/AWARENESS MONTH JB6.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)\">Popular writer and cancer survivor Patricia Scanlan launching the Irish Cancer Society Big Pink Breakfast campaign. Photo: Julien Behal<\/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)\">Irish author and breast cancer survivor Patricia Scanlan has said \u201cthe person she was last year is nothing like the person she is now\u201d, as she spoke candidly about her diagnosis.<\/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 Dublin writer was diagnosed with breast cancer on December 13 last year after a BreastCheck appointment. She said it is a \u201cdate I won\u2019t forget\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Survivor gives reasons to stay optimistic as she says: \u2018It\u2019s not the death sentence it used to be\u2019&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92242,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[7699,18,117,19,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-92241","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-adrianna-wrona","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92241","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=92241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}