Will Reeve Reveals Testicular Cancer Diagnosis
By Sandra Rhodes (/journals/sandra-rhodes)
It has been quite a year for ABC News' correspondent Will Reeve.
The son of “Superman” actor Christopher Reeve and Dana Reeve got married in January. Then in April, he was diagnosed with testicular cancer
The New York-based correspondent, reporting for ABC News platforms said he went to a doctor after he noticed a lump in his left testicle.
Testicular cancer is a cancer that develops in the tissues of one or both testicles, according to the National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine.
An ultrasound revealed a mass in his testicle. He had surgery to remove his testicle. That surgery in early May led to a diagnosis of testicular cancer, according to Reeve.
He said he was diagnosed with embryonal carcinoma, an aggressive form of testicular cancer that is typically found in young to middle-aged individuals.
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Reeve said he underwent a second surgery, a retroperitoneal lymph node dissection, in June to remove dozens of lymph nodes to help prevent the cancer from spreading.
Because some of the lymph nodes were cancerous, Reeve said he chose to undergo two cycles of chemotherapy to lower the odds of the cancer returning to nearly 1%.
In early July, Reeve, 34, began chemotherapy with his wife, Amanda, by his side. On treatment days, the two sat for nine hours at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City.
At the end of July, Reeve was able to ring the bell to signify the successful end of his treatment.
He said he did so with the thought of his late mom Dana Reeve, who also underwent chemotherapy at Sloan Kettering. Dana Reeve died of lung cancer at age 44 in March 2006.
Will Reeve said he is sharing his own cancer diagnosis to help raise awareness of testicular cancer.
"I want folks to know that this is a thing that can happen. It's shocking. It's weird," he said. "It's slightly awkward to talk about just because of what we're really discussing here, but that you end up okay, almost always."