Will Reeve Opens Up About Cancer Battle and Triumph

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Christopher Reeve’s son Will Reeve revealed his testicular cancer diagnosis on Tuesday.

The 34-year-old assured “Good Morning America” viewers “right off the top” that he is “OK” and battled the disease over the summer.

“The diagnosis was a shock and the treatments were a slog,” he noted. “Today, though, I am relieved to announce that we arrived at our destination and this cancer is in the rearview mirror. But what a journey.”

Will explained that four months after his January wedding to Amanda Dubin, he found “a hard, tender lump in [his] left testicle.”

He went in for an ultrasound “at Amanda’s urging,” and “the images confirmed the unimaginable” — he “had a mass that had to come out.”

Will underwent an orchiectomy in May to have the testicle removed, but what he thought was a “momentary frightening detour” escalated when he was diagnosed with embryonal carcinoma, an aggressive form of testicular cancer.

As a result, Will underwent another surgery to have dozens of lymph nodes removed from his abdomen to prevent the cancer from spreading.

He went under the knife at Memorial Sloan Kettering, the same building where his mom, Dana Reeve, lost her battle to lung cancer in 2006 at 44 years old, two years after her husband’s passing at 52.

Will made the “necessary choice” to undergo chemotherapy to slash his chances of a cancer recurrence, with his symptoms including ringing ears, night sweats, blood clots, constant headaches and bone pain.

Will did not, however, lose his hair to the treatment thanks to a cold-capping method — and he banked sperm so he and Dubin can start a family one day via in vitro fertilization.

Will, who raved about getting “clean scans” on Sept. 8., shared more details in a People interview, saying that while he is “going to be fine,” this was “one heck of a chapter” in his life.

“I’m fortunate that I caught this early,” he stressed. “Yes, I had to jump through some flaming hoops to get to the other side, but it could have been much worse had I ignored it or delayed going to the doctor.”

He praised his wife for being his “caregiver,” comparing his partner to his mom, who cared for Christopher after the “Superman” star’s horse-riding accident left him paralyzed in 1995.

“I learn[ed] more about what it was like to be my dad in the final nine years of his life, where he had my mom and our family taking care of him,” Will explained, noting that they taught him how to take adversity and “repurpose it into something hopeful.”

Dubin, for her part, called her husband’s cancer battle “early validation” that they can “tackle anything” as a couple.

The duo went public with their romance in April 2023 and got engaged in November of the following year, ultimately tying the knot in Miami in January.

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