{"id":21690,"date":"2026-03-27T16:00:56","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T16:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=21690"},"modified":"2026-03-27T16:00:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T16:00:56","slug":"man-diagnosed-with-colon-cancer-at-26-reveals-1-symptom-he-dismissed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=21690","title":{"rendered":"Man diagnosed with colon cancer at 26 reveals 1 symptom he dismissed!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"71\" data-end=\"222\">At 26, David Lyon never imagined cancer could affect him. When he noticed blood, he brushed it off. But as the pain worsened, he finally got checked.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"224\" data-end=\"450\">A colonoscopy revealed Stage 4 colon cancer that had already spread to his liver. Shocked and angry, David chose to stay mentally strong\u2014focusing on living, working out, and playing hockey even through years of chemotherapy.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"452\" data-end=\"550\">After surgery and a life-saving liver transplant, he beat the disease. Now 31, he\u2019s cancer-free.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"552\" data-end=\"698\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">His story is a powerful reminder: don\u2019t ignore warning signs. Even young people are increasingly being diagnosed, and early action can save lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 26, David Lyon never imagined cancer could affect him. When he noticed blood, he brushed it off. But as the pain worsened, he finally got checked. A colonoscopy revealed Stage 4 colon cancer that had already spread to his liver. Shocked and angry, David chose to stay mentally strong\u2014focusing on living, working out, and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=21690\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Man diagnosed with colon cancer at 26 reveals 1 symptom he dismissed!&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21691,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21690","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\/21690","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=21690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21692,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21690\/revisions\/21692"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}