\t\t\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t <\/p>\n \tRelated story \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\tSylvester Stallone Says He Paid a ‘Terrible Price’ For Years of Intense Film Roles: ‘I Abused [My Body]’\t\t<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p><\/div>\n \t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/article>\n \t \n\t\u201cI assumed it was nothing or would go away,\u201d Reeve told People<\/em>. But when doctors told him it was testicular cancer, the news caught him completely off guard: \u201cI was stunned.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tDoctors discovered the cancer had already spread to the lymph nodes in his abdomen. In early May, Reeve underwent an orchiectomy to remove the affected testicle<\/a>., Reeve said he was more nervous about the \u201cunknown\u201d of the surgery \u2014 his first since a tonsilectomy at age 5 \u2014 than \u201cthe overwhelming realization that I would be losing an essential part of my body forever,\u201d he said. He then underwent two rounds of chemotherapy.<\/p>\n \n\tAccording to the Cleveland Clinic<\/a>, testicular cancer is the most common cancer in men aged 15 to 44, and has a 95% five-year survival rate.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cThe 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,\u201d Reeve said. \u201cI was experiencing life as each of my parents at the same time.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tReeve added: \u201cBecause I was a cancer patient at Memorial Sloan Kettering, I was getting a firsthand experience at what my mother went through.\u201d Receiving intense care from his wife, Amanda Dubin Reeve, also gave him insight into the experience of his father, who became paralyzed from the neck down after being thrown from a horse when Will was just two. \u201cI was learning more about what it was like to be my dad in the final nine years of his life,\u201d he said, \u201cwhere he had my mom and our family<\/a> taking care of him.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tRemarkably, Reeve kept working at Good Morning America<\/em> during his treatments. He wore a cold-capping helmet, which Reeve described as \u201cthe underside of a manta ray,\u201d to avoid losing his hair on camera and relied on anti-nausea medication to get through the process before finishing his final round of chemo in late July.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cI never really felt sick at all,\u201d he said, even though \u201csome of the after effects [24-hour headaches, bone pain] felt like a bit of ailment whack-a-mole.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tNow officially cancer-free, he plans to go in for routine bloodwork and scans a few times a year. He hopes that by going public with his story, other men will stop ignoring physical warning signs and actually schedule a doctor\u2019s visit.<\/p>\n![\"Sylvester](\"https:\/\/www.sheknows.com\/wp-content\/themes\/vip\/pmc-sheknows-2020\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.gif\")
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\n<\/section>\n<\/p>\n\n\t\tWalking in His Parents\u2019 Footsteps\t<\/h2>\n
\n\t\tCancer-Free and Moving Forward\t<\/h2>\n