Sophia Michaels
Len Goodman was a judge on “Dancing With Stars” and his tumor was removed. He had a surgery to remove a cancerous tumor from his prostate.
Long before his death in 2023, Len Goodman received some gut-wrenching news from his team of doctors. In 2009, the “Dancing with the Stars” judge sat down for an interview with the Daily Mail, where he revealed his “secret battle” with prostate cancer. That year, doctors removed a cancerous tumor from Goodman’s prostate gland, and he had kept the surgery a secret from everyone aside from close family and friends. The news came as Goodman served as a judge on “Dancing With Stars.” Goodman told the outlet, ‘I could have said “sorry” and not done the show, but the doctors felt I wasn’t riddled with it, and it wasn’t so far advanced that it was a life-or-death scenario.” He added, “It takes a few weeks to get everything set up for the operation anyway, so I went ahead and did the show. I had the surgery done as soon as I got back from America.”
Luckily, the surgery went well, but it didn’t come without significant stress as Goodman also shared how scary it was to hear the diagnosis. “I was obviously worried at the start. We all worry if we get something like this,” he told the outlet. “You do feel a bit vulnerable, but as long as you come out the other side all right, why worry?” ‘Goodman added that he opted to have the tumor removed instead of doing radiation while urging readers to get medical checkups every year.
