{"id":694180,"date":"2026-01-13T23:47:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T23:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/694180\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T23:47:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T23:47:14","slug":"brockworth-dad-helping-to-shape-governments-national-cancer-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/694180\/","title":{"rendered":"Brockworth dad helping to shape Government&#8217;s National Cancer Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sadler, 44, said his son Michael was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia (ALL) in April 2014, aged two, after he &#8220;started experiencing pains in his legs&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;A few days later it was too painful for him to walk,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;So we ended up going to A&amp;E and by 11pm that evening we were told he had a diagnosis for ALL.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said the diagnosis had a huge impact on the whole family and they struggled to know who to turn to.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But the charity Young Lives vs Cancer, which he now volunteers for, stepped in and supported the family &#8220;hugely&#8221; through Michael&#8217;s illness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It was a week before Michael&#8217;s third birthday &#8211; we ended up moving to Bristol with a two-month-old baby,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s really hard to access everything but they gave us somewhere to live, social workers, nurses &#8211; we couldn&#8217;t believe people did things for us.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sadler, 44, said his son Michael was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia (ALL) in April 2014, aged two,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":694181,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[105,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-694180","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115890463912220808","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=694180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/694181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}