{"id":13292,"date":"2025-12-05T15:54:31","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T15:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=13292"},"modified":"2025-12-05T15:54:31","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T15:54:31","slug":"cancer-stricken-dawsons-creek-star-issues-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=13292","title":{"rendered":"Cancer-stricken Dawson\u2019s Creek star issues update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"81\" data-end=\"356\">James Van Der Beek, best known from <em data-start=\"117\" data-end=\"133\">Dawson\u2019s Creek<\/em>, has shared an emotional update on his battle with stage three colorectal cancer, first diagnosed in 2023. What he thought were minor bowel changes turned out to be cancer, news he received immediately after his procedure.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"358\" data-end=\"555\">The illness has taken a heavy toll. \u201cI couldn\u2019t be the husband, father, or provider I wanted to be,\u201d he said, adding that acting has been his escape: \u201cBetween action and cut, cancer doesn\u2019t exist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"557\" data-end=\"737\">Van Der Beek revealed that his children have now become caregivers and expressed sadness over missing a <em data-start=\"661\" data-end=\"677\">Dawson\u2019s Creek<\/em> reunion. Fans have responded with deep concern and support.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"739\" data-end=\"822\">Leaning on faith, he reflected, \u201cI am worthy of God\u2019s love simply because I exist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"824\" data-end=\"933\">To help fund treatment, he\u2019s auctioning memorabilia from his career, including iconic <em data-start=\"910\" data-end=\"926\">Dawson\u2019s Creek<\/em> items<\/p>\n<div id=\"newsner-dcf0bad426c6a9b55b1a39ccedfc413f\" class=\"newsner-dcf0bad426c6a9b55b1a39ccedfc413f newsner-amp_article_inside_content\"><\/div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-instagram wp-block-embed-instagram\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><iframe id=\"instagram-embed-1\" class=\"instagram-media instagram-media-rendered\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DM1k7quufo5\/embed\/captioned\/?cr=1&amp;v=14&amp;wp=1000&amp;rd=https%3A%2F%2Fen.newsner.com&amp;rp=%2Fnews%2Fcancer-stricken-dawsons-creek-star-issues-update%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwY2xjawOf3qlleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETExYjVudzFpdFdkQTlsaTVMc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHqvWtfS2HI4TVvlRmgayTiGPK3yWhLwcocntHgu#%7B%22ci%22%3A1%2C%22os%22%3A4554.400000095367%7D\" height=\"1238\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-instgrm-payload-id=\"instagram-media-payload-1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Van Der Beek, best known from Dawson\u2019s Creek, has shared an emotional update on his battle with stage three colorectal cancer, first diagnosed in 2023. What he thought were minor bowel changes turned out to be cancer, news he received immediately after his procedure. The illness has taken a heavy toll. \u201cI couldn\u2019t be&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=13292\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Cancer-stricken Dawson\u2019s Creek star issues update&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13293,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13294,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13292\/revisions\/13294"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}