{"id":39414,"date":"2026-07-13T09:26:45","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T07:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=39414"},"modified":"2026-07-13T09:26:45","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T07:26:45","slug":"nearly-480-000-living-with-sarcoma-cancer-worldwide","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/nearly-480-000-living-with-sarcoma-cancer-worldwide\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly 480 000 living with sarcoma cancer worldwide"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">An estimate of 480 000 people worldwide are actively living with sarcomas cancer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Known as the -forgotten cancer, the disease is a rare complex malignancy of the bones and soft tissues.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">July is a global Sarcoma awareness month, to shine a spotlight on the illness.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The month aims to educate the public about the signs and symptoms of the disease, promote early diagnosis.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8211;Channel Africa&#8211;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":15378,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-39414","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Sarcomas cancer","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/39414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/39414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39415,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/39414\/revisions\/39415"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=39414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}