{"id":34134,"date":"2026-09-10T16:29:55","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T16:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=34134"},"modified":"2026-09-10T16:29:55","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T16:29:55","slug":"former-football-star-reveals-shocking-stage-4-cancer-diagnosis-at-38","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=34134","title":{"rendered":"Former Football Star Reveals Shocking Stage 4 Cancer Diagnosis at 38"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Former South Carolina Gamecocks quarterback <strong>Stephen Garcia, 38, has revealed that he has been diagnosed with Stage 4 colorectal cancer.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Garcia shared the news on social media and urged people not to ignore warning signs or avoid seeing a doctor when something feels wrong.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">He said his medical team is confident they can fight the disease and that he has already started chemotherapy with the aggressive FOLFIRINOX treatment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">His wife, Maria, has also launched a GoFundMe to help with medical expenses, which has already raised more than $127,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Garcia played for Steve Spurrier from 2008\u20132011, throwing for <strong>7,597 yards and 47 touchdowns<\/strong>. One of the biggest moments of his career came in 2010, when he helped South Carolina defeat then-No. 1 Alabama.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Now, the former quarterback is facing the biggest fight of his life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">\u201cGet checked and don\u2019t be afraid to visit the doctor when you don\u2019t feel 100%,\u201d Garcia urged.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude4f Wishing Stephen Garcia strength in his fight.<\/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\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former South Carolina Gamecocks quarterback Stephen Garcia, 38, has revealed that he has been diagnosed with Stage 4 colorectal cancer. Garcia shared the news on social media and urged people not to ignore warning signs or avoid seeing a doctor when something feels wrong. He said his medical team is confident they can fight the&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=34134\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Former Football Star Reveals Shocking Stage 4 Cancer Diagnosis at 38&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34135,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34134","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\/34134","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=34134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34136,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34134\/revisions\/34136"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}