{"id":93722,"date":"2026-10-17T15:07:59","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T07:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=93722"},"modified":"2026-10-17T15:07:59","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T07:07:59","slug":"hong-kong-rugby-player-and-cancer-survivor-on-why-screening-is-key-even-for-young-and-fit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=93722","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong rugby player and cancer survivor on why screening is key even for young and fit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/10\/16\/79d1da12-df0b-4832-9913-44df2eb2881e_6ee764a1.jpg?itok=cfmAL0Mi&amp;v=1792157174\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">When Sonia Chandiramani lost her mum to <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">ovarian cancer<\/span> in 2017, she found solace in an unexpected place: the rugby pitch.<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cI was spending five nights a week with my team, plus weekends,\u201d says the 33-year-old Chandiramani, who had been playing since she was 14. \u201cIt was my second family.<\/p>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">Two years later, Chandiramani and some fellow players established Phenomenally Group, a Hong Kong-based charity dedicated to cancer awareness, proactive healthcare and providing <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">accessible early screening services<\/span>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/health-wellness\/article\/3370857\/hong-kong-rugby-player-and-cancer-survivor-why-screening-key-even-young-and-fit?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Sonia Chandiramani lost her mum to ovarian cancer in 2017, she found solace in an unexpected place: the rugby pitch. \u201cI was spending five&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":93723,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[280,4695,3569,1623,5231,3215,10926,1125,4505,273],"class_list":["post-93722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-cancer","tag-fit","tag-hong","tag-key","tag-kong","tag-player","tag-rugby","tag-screening","tag-survivor","tag-young","wpcat-33-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/93723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}