What the Good Morning America anchor didn’t know, however, was that his health journey was just beginning.
Indeed, further testing revealed that 95 percent of the testicular cancer found was embryonal carcinoma, an aggressive form of the disease.
And that June, he had to undergo a six-hour surgery to remove dozens of lymph nodes from his abdomen, three of which tested positive for testicular cancer, which forced him to endure two rounds of chemotherapy.
And as he received the treatment he needed, Reeve couldn’t help but reflect on his parents’ health journeys.
“The irony is not lost on me that 20 years after my mom died of lung cancer at Memorial Sloan Kettering, there I was in the same building getting treated for cancer,” he explained. “I was experiencing life as each of my parents at the same time. Because I was a cancer patient at Memorial Sloan Kettering, I was getting a firsthand experience at what my mother went through.”
