As part of Men’s Health Week, an Ipswich Town player spoke about his experience with testicular cancer. Here’s what the talkSPORT broadcaster said in an interview with Ross Halls.
Jason Cundy heard the shocking news in February 2024. I developed testicular cancer when I was 27 years old. He had moved from Tottenham to Ipswich Town just four months before.
“In the week building up to a home game against Oxford United I noticed that one of my testicles was completely different then the other – it was large, heavy and looked really strange,” he says.
“But I had some sutures in a shin cut that had become infected and I was on antibiotics, so my glands were up on the inside of my groins.
“On the day of the game, I went to meet the physio, Dave Williams, and showed him, and he laughed because it seemed amusing. Then he suggested I see the club doctor (Dr. Steve Lazar). About an hour and a half before kickoff, I was on the bench receiving a message, and he walked in to look at it. When he saw that, he said, ‘You can’t play today; you need to go to the hospital’.
“I told him, ‘Look, I’m playing; we can do this later.’” When the ball went out of play during the game, I remember staring down at the grass and thinking, ‘What is this?’ For an instant, cancer appeared in my mind, and then
