Will Reeve Reveals Testicular Cancer, Says Wife Amanda Got Him to a Doctor

• Will Reeve, the ABC News correspondent and son of Christopher and Dana Reeve, said on Good Morning America Tuesday that he was diagnosed with testicular cancer in the spring.
• His wife, Amanda, whom he married in January, pushed him to see a doctor after he found a lump in April. Two surgeries and two cycles of chemotherapy followed.
• He rang the bell at Memorial Sloan Kettering at the end of July. “I feel good. I am good,” he said.

Will Reeve, the ABC News correspondent and son of Christopher Reeve and Dana Reeve, revealed on Good Morning America on Tuesday, Sept. 29, that he was diagnosed with testicular cancer this spring, months after his wedding.

Reeve, 34, sat on the GMA couch next to his wife, Amanda, and walked through the surgeries and chemotherapy he had kept private since April. He finished treatment at the end of July.

How did Will Reeve find out he had cancer?

In April, Reeve noticed a lump in his left testicle. Amanda, whom he married in January, encouraged him to get it checked by a doctor.

An ultrasound found a mass, and in early May he had an orchiectomy, the surgery to remove the testicle. That surgery confirmed the diagnosis: embryonal carcinoma, which he described as an aggressive form of testicular cancer usually found in young and middle-aged men.

Testicular cancer develops in the tissues of one or both testicles, according to the National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health. Reeve said he is telling his story now to raise awareness of it.

I want folks to know that this is a thing that can happen. It’s shocking. It’s weird. It’s slightly awkward to talk about just because of what we’re really discussing here, but that you end up okay, almost always.

Will Reeve, on Good Morning America

What treatment did Will Reeve have?

Reeve laid out the timeline himself on Tuesday:

• April: he finds the lump, and an ultrasound finds a mass.
• Early May: surgery to remove the testicle leads to the diagnosis.
• June: a six-hour second surgery, a retroperitoneal lymph node dissection, removes dozens of lymph nodes to keep the cancer from spreading. Some of them are cancerous.
• Early July: he starts the first of two cycles of chemotherapy at Memorial Sloan Kettering in New York, with two weeks of recovery between them.
• End of July: he rings the bell at Sloan Kettering that marks the end of treatment.

Because the cancer had reached some lymph nodes, he said, he chose the chemotherapy to lower the odds of it coming back. Between cycles he dealt with bone pain, ringing in his ears, night sweats, blood clots and headaches.

Each treatment day lasted nine hours, with Amanda beside him: two hours of chemotherapy and seven of cold capping, a cooled cap worn during chemotherapy to help prevent hair loss. He called it a “gift,” and a “really hard” one.

Why did Will Reeve think of his mother?

Dana Reeve went through chemotherapy at the same hospital. She died of lung cancer in March 2006, at 44, less than two years after Christopher Reeve, the Superman star paralyzed in a 1995 riding accident, died in 2004. Will was 13.

The cold cap, he said, was about her. He only understood she was sick when her hair started to go.

I remember with my mom, when she got sick 20 years ago, I didn’t really know that she was sick until she lost her hair. And I think anyone who has cancer or loves someone with cancer, that’s sort of a tipping point when you know, oh man, this is real.

Will Reeve, on Good Morning America

He kept coming to the studio through it. “To be able to look myself in the mirror every day and come here every day and be like, ‘I feel good. I am good,’ that was a major wind in my sails, for sure,” he said.

Can Will Reeve and his wife still have children?

Yes. Reeve said that having children was one of the first worries for him and Amanda after the diagnosis, and that because of the steps they took, they will be able to have biological children through IVF.

“We really want to be parents, and the great joy is that we are going to be able to have children, our own children,” he said. “And that’s what we want to do.”

Here is the full GMA segment, with Amanda beside him on the couch.

GMA has more of his story on Wednesday and Thursday, Sept. 30 and Oct. 1, between 7 and 9 a.m. ET, with doctors and other patients.

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— Bruno Monteiro

Sources: Will Reeve and Amanda Reeve on Good Morning America (ABC), Sept. 29, 2026; ABC News (Katie Kindelan), Sept. 29, 2026. National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health (NIH) (definition of testicular cancer). Photos and video: Good Morning America (ABC News); Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story official trailer (Warner Bros.); ABC News (2024 and 2025 interviews).