{"id":31890,"date":"2026-07-30T16:57:58","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T16:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=31890"},"modified":"2026-07-30T16:57:58","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T16:57:58","slug":"former-football-star-reveals-stage-4-cancer-at-38","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=31890","title":{"rendered":"Former Football Star Reveals Stage 4 Cancer at 38"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ad_ph\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\" data-start=\"39\" data-end=\"188\">Former South Carolina quarterback <strong data-start=\"73\" data-end=\"91\">Stephen Garcia<\/strong> has revealed that he has been diagnosed with <strong data-start=\"137\" data-end=\"166\">Stage 4 colorectal cancer<\/strong> at just 38 years old.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"190\" data-end=\"307\">Garcia shared the emotional news on social media, saying he and his medical team are determined to fight the disease.<\/p>\n<blockquote data-start=\"309\" data-end=\"401\">\n<p data-start=\"311\" data-end=\"401\">\u201cWe have a great team of doctors that\u2019s confident we can beat this. It\u2019s the only option.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p data-start=\"403\" data-end=\"509\">He also urged others not to ignore warning signs and to seek medical care if something doesn\u2019t feel right.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"511\" data-end=\"776\">After several days of testing, including MRIs and CT scans, Garcia was diagnosed with advanced colorectal cancer. He has already begun aggressive <strong data-start=\"657\" data-end=\"684\">FOLFIRINOX chemotherapy<\/strong> and will soon meet with liver and colon specialists to discuss the next stage of treatment.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"778\" data-end=\"955\">Garcia starred at South Carolina from 2008\u20132011, throwing for <strong data-start=\"840\" data-end=\"873\">7,597 yards and 47 touchdowns<\/strong>, and famously led the Gamecocks to their historic upset of No. 1 Alabama in 2010.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"957\" data-end=\"1073\">His wife, Maria, launched a GoFundMe to help with medical expenses, which has already raised <strong data-start=\"1050\" data-end=\"1072\">more than $127,000<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1075\" data-end=\"1162\">Supporters continue to rally behind Garcia as he begins the toughest fight of his life.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jaytK8Rje4c?si=djJ7f-rT_2_h0sjk\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former South Carolina quarterback Stephen Garcia has revealed that he has been diagnosed with Stage 4 colorectal cancer at just 38 years old. Garcia shared the emotional news on social media, saying he and his medical team are determined to fight the disease. \u201cWe have a great team of doctors that\u2019s confident we can beat&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=31890\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Former Football Star Reveals Stage 4 Cancer at 38&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31891,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31890","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\/31890","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=31890"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31892,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31890\/revisions\/31892"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}