Official Site of the Bears · Feb 24, 2018
Ex-Bears tight end Wetnight battling cancer
After two biopsies taken on a mass in his stomach had come back negative, Ryan Wetnight received some shocking news from his doctor last November.
The former Bears tight end was informed that he did in fact have gastric cancer and needed to see an oncologist and begin chemotherapy immediately.
“When he told me that, it was the last thing I was expecting, so it was pretty devastating,” Wetnight said. “The whole time my mindset had been, ‘There’s no cancer. I’ve got an issue, but we’re going to be able to take care of this.’ My mindset was I’m not dealing with cancer and then all of a sudden I am.”
