{"id":131511,"date":"2024-11-08T20:06:44","date_gmt":"2024-11-08T20:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/08\/james-van-der-beek-caught-off-guard-by-cancer-diagnosis\/"},"modified":"2024-11-08T20:06:44","modified_gmt":"2024-11-08T20:06:44","slug":"james-van-der-beek-caught-off-guard-by-cancer-diagnosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/08\/james-van-der-beek-caught-off-guard-by-cancer-diagnosis\/","title":{"rendered":"James Van Der Beek caught off-guard by cancer diagnosis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<p>        <time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2024-11-08\" datetime=\"1731096404\" pubdate=\"\">8 November 2024<\/time>\n    <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/james-van-der-beek\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,james-van-der-beek\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">James Van Der Beek<\/a> was stunned by his cancer diagnosis.<\/p>\n<p>                            <\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">James Van Der Beek has been diagnosed with cancer<\/p>\n<p>The 47-year-old actor was diagnosed with stage 3 colorectal cancer in August, and James has now admitted to being caught off-guard by the news.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to PEOPLE, James shared: &#8220;It was just a change in bowel habits.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I thought, I probably need to change my diet a little bit. Maybe I need to stop coffee. Maybe I need to not put cream in the coffee. And then I finally took that out of the diet, and it didn&#8217;t improve, and I thought, all right, I better go get this checked out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>James was initially relaxed about the situation, assuming it would be easy to remedy.<\/p>\n<p>\nHe shared: &#8220;I felt really, really good as I was coming out of anesthesia that I had finally done it and looked into it. And as I was coming out of the haze, the gastroenterologist said &#8211; in his most pleasant bedside manner &#8211; it is cancer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nJames was in &#8220;amazing cardiovascular shape&#8221; when he was diagnosed with cancer, and he&#8217;s confessed to being shocked by the news.<\/p>\n<p>\nHe said: &#8220;I&#8217;m very healthy. I was in amazing cardiovascular shape. <\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;I tried to eat healthy as much as I could, as far as I knew at the time. Though I&#8217;ve since learned a lot about what actually eating healthy is.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nJames previously revealed that he has been &#8220;feeling good&#8221; and is remaining optimistic about the situation.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe actor &#8211; who is best known for playing Dawson Leery on the hit TV series &#8216;Dawson&#8217;s Creek&#8217; &#8211; told PEOPLE: &#8220;I have colorectal cancer. I\u2019ve been privately dealing with this diagnosis and have been taking steps to resolve it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!-- Pagination --><\/p>\n<p><!-- playbuzz --><br \/>\n<!-- end playbuzz--><\/p>\n<p><!-- \n\n<div data-cn-project=\"femalefirst\">\n    \n<\/div>\n\n --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n<!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<p>    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/celebrity\/james-van-der-beek-caught-guard-cancer-diagnosis-1408752.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>8 November 2024 James Van Der Beek was stunned by his cancer diagnosis. James Van Der Beek has been diagnosed with cancer The 47-year-old actor was diagnosed with stage 3 colorectal cancer in August, and James has now admitted to being caught off-guard by the news. Speaking to PEOPLE, James shared: &#8220;It was just a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":131512,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[9428,6931],"class_list":{"0":"post-131511","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-make-up","8":"tag-dawson-leery","9":"tag-james-van-der-beek"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}