{"id":33034,"date":"2026-08-20T16:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T16:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=33034"},"modified":"2026-08-20T16:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T16:52:10","slug":"former-football-star-reveals-stage-4-cancer-diagnosis-at-38","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=33034","title":{"rendered":"Former Football Star Reveals Stage 4 Cancer Diagnosis at 38"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\" data-start=\"25\" data-end=\"133\">Former South Carolina quarterback <strong data-start=\"59\" data-end=\"133\">Stephen Garcia, 38, has been diagnosed with Stage 4 colorectal cancer.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"135\" data-end=\"298\">Garcia shared the news on social media, saying his doctors are confident he can beat the disease and urging people not to ignore symptoms or delay seeing a doctor.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"300\" data-end=\"403\">His wife, Maria, has launched a GoFundMe to help with medical expenses, raising more than <strong data-start=\"390\" data-end=\"402\">$127,000<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"405\" data-end=\"527\">Garcia has already started an aggressive chemotherapy treatment and is preparing to meet with liver and colon specialists.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"529\" data-end=\"680\">The former Gamecocks star played from 2008\u20132011, throwing for <strong data-start=\"591\" data-end=\"624\">7,597 yards and 47 touchdowns<\/strong> and helping South Carolina upset No. 1 Alabama in 2010.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"682\" data-end=\"727\"><strong data-start=\"682\" data-end=\"727\">Wishing Stephen strength in his fight. \ud83d\ude4f<\/strong><\/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, 38, has been diagnosed with Stage 4 colorectal cancer. Garcia shared the news on social media, saying his doctors are confident he can beat the disease and urging people not to ignore symptoms or delay seeing a doctor. His wife, Maria, has launched a GoFundMe to help with medical&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=33034\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Former Football Star Reveals Stage 4 Cancer Diagnosis at 38&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33035,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33034","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\/33034","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=33034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33036,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33034\/revisions\/33036"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}