{"id":5721,"date":"2020-12-05T10:25:05","date_gmt":"2020-12-05T11:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=5721"},"modified":"2020-12-05T20:18:08","modified_gmt":"2020-12-05T20:18:08","slug":"de-belin-rocked-by-cancer-diagnosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=5721","title":{"rendered":"De Belin rocked by cancer diagnosis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With his <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/jack-de-belin-retrial-no-fault-stand-down-policy-nrl-dragons\/e9c297b3-b7c4-4a14-8576-647c0acd10af\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" title=\"aggravated sexual assault case set for retrial in April 2021\">aggravated sexual assault case set for retrial in April 2021<\/a>, it&#x27;s been revealed Jack de Belin&#x27;s rollercoaster three-year legal fight has been impacted by a testicular cancer diagnosis.<\/p>\n<p>De Belin, who&#x27;s kept his private life behind doors amid his trial, was forced to undergo surgery to remove a lump in his testicle back in September according to <em>The<\/em> <em>Daily Telegraph.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It&#x27;s understood the 29-year-old discovered the cancerous lump earlier in the year before undergoing keyhole surgery following advice from medical experts. It&#x27;s expected the Dragons forward will make a full recovery.<\/p>\n<p>De Belin declined to comment on the situation but his manager, Steve Gillis, told the <em>Telegraph<\/em> it was a &quot;private and personal matter.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"432375a8-9d26-475c-8691-870c6120ace4\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/432375a8-9d26-475c-8691-870c6120ace4\" alt=\"Jack De Belin\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Only De Belin&#x27;s closest teammates and senior club staff members are believed to have been aware of the testicular cancer diagnosis.<\/p>\n<p>But for now, De Belin will have to defend himself all over again in Sydney on April 12 after a unanimous or majority verdict was unable to be reached by the jury, following three weeks of evidence in the high-profile case.<\/p>\n<p>Formally charged ahead of season 2019, <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/nrl-confirms-no-fault-stand-down-policy-will-remain-for-jack-de-belin\/55828631-9f1e-45c2-ae8e-1d258e544868\" title=\"de Belin has since been ineligible to play for two years\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">de Belin has since been ineligible to play for two years<\/a>, despite training with the Dragons and collecting full pay, in excess of $600,000-a-season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>With his aggravated sexual assault case set for retrial in April 2021, it&#x27;s been revealed Jack de Belin&#x27;s rollercoaster three-year legal fight has been impacted <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=5721\" title=\"De Belin rocked by cancer diagnosis\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5721"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5721"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5723,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5721\/revisions\/5723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}