Chad Bettis was shocked, and admittedly scared, when he was recently diagnosed with testicular cancer.
“Anytime you hear the word ‘cancer,’ it throws you back,” the Rockies starting pitcher said Friday during a phone interview from his home in Scottsdale, Ariz. “I would never have guessed it would have happened to me. I was taken off guard by it.”
Now, after undergoing surgery Nov. 29 to have a testicle removed, Bettis wants to make sure other men know about a disease that, according to the Testicular Cancer Society, strikes an estimated 8,500 men in the United States each year, leading to 350 deaths.