{"id":3279,"date":"2014-11-26T07:45:18","date_gmt":"2014-11-26T07:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=3279"},"modified":"2014-11-26T07:45:18","modified_gmt":"2014-11-26T07:45:18","slug":"soyinka-diagnosed-of-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=3279","title":{"rendered":"Soyinka diagnosed of cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/wole_soyinka_298107621.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3280\" alt=\"wole_soyinka_298107621\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/wole_soyinka_298107621-300x171.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"171\" srcset=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/wole_soyinka_298107621-300x171.jpg 300w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/wole_soyinka_298107621.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Renowned playwright and Nobel Laureate, Prof. Oluwole Soyinka, on Tuesday opened up on his health status, saying he was diagnosed of prostate cancer last December.<\/p>\n<p>But an expert and Founder of African Cancer Centre, Lagos, Prof. Olu Williams, quickly assured Soyinka that he would \u201cnot die of cancer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Williams, who revealed that Soyinka had the disease because of his old age, said the playwright will only \u201cdie with the ailment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Soyinka, who revealed his cancer status at a press conference at the June 12 Cultural Centre, Abeokuta, Ogun State, said he had decided to open up so as to create awareness about\u00a0 cancer disease and to help people take measures to prevent it or seek prompt medical attention for cure.<\/p>\n<p>The Nobel Laureate said he survived the silent killer disease because of early detection, treatment and proper dieting, adding that it has also dawned on him that the family has a history of cancer ailment\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00a0 http:\/\/diamondcelebrities.com\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Renowned playwright and Nobel Laureate, Prof. Oluwole Soyinka, on Tuesday opened up on his health status, saying he was diagnosed of prostate cancer last December. But an expert and Founder of African Cancer Centre, Lagos, Prof. Olu Williams, quickly assured Soyinka that he would \u201cnot die of cancer.\u201d Williams, who revealed that Soyinka had the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3280,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/wole_soyinka_298107621.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-QT","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3281,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3279\/revisions\/3281"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}