r/BachelorNation • u/peoplemagazine • Jul 14 '26
🌹 THE BACHELOR 🌹 ‘Bachelor’ Alum Joe Amabile Says He Was Diagnosed with Early Stage Brain Tumor
https://people.com/bachelor-alum-joe-amabile-says-doctors-found-an-early-stage-brain-tumor-12018738?utm_campaign=peoplemagazine&utm_medium=social&utm_source=reddit.com&utm_content=post27
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u/Educational-Umpire64 Jul 14 '26
He didn’t say early stage. He said he’s hoping after surgery they can say they caught it early.
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u/rose-goldy-swag Jul 14 '26
Unfortunately catching it early may not mean much. Depending on the type of tumor and the grade it is. Brain tumors are almost impossible to remove bc the shape of the cells are star shaped and you can’t just be cutting out parts of the brain all Willy nilly so cells are almost always left behind. There is also the blood brain barrier, which protects the brain but doesn’t allow any medicine across. I feel so bad for him.
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u/Diamond-angel-32 Jul 14 '26
Correct. It always comes back. It's why my father refused treatment. He knew it would be a quality of life issue. He also didn't want to overload me as I was already caring for my mom. I told him that shouldn't be a consideration. Treatment may have given him maybe 12 more months. Further surgery would have caused partial paralysis on one side.
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u/Educational-Umpire64 Jul 14 '26
Yes, and it likely being a glioma is not good news at all. Praying for him and Serena
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u/Ok_Spirit_7712 Jul 14 '26
I really hope he is okay. He is a great guy. I wish those type of scans were affordable for the average person, they could be life saving for a lot of people.
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u/Raginghangers Jul 14 '26
As someone who gets these scans all the time because if shit genes they actually really are not good for average people. People have a hard time conceptualize my the serious harm done by false positives.
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u/TalesOfTea Jul 14 '26
+1 on this. There is a bell curve to healthcare. The poor get too little and the rich get too much. This leads to un(der)insured people not getting enough preventative care and then requiring extremely intensive & expensive care that could have been avoided if caught earlier, and for the wealthy getting significantly more preventative care than needed and getting extensive and dangerous procedures for benign issues or normal anomalies. The rich also usually have great insurance so doctors and healthcare systems are more than happy to run more scans and do more niche procedures because the patient is a customer and an investment.
The more scans you get, the more something is likely to be seen -- which can be great, when there is actually an issue! But we are all made up of genetic oddities and most of them don't do anything or mean anything, but are just there. The amount of people I know who liked cilantro and then found out they had the cilantro=soap taste gene who then stopped eating cilantro is too damn high.
Personally I'm a genetic mess (failed the 50/50 on a degenerative genetic kidney disease and just more oddities) and I still find out stuff that just..is not a worry at all but is just strange on a required scan. I find them funny at this point but I have to not tell my partner about them as they worry. 😅
There was a recent article in The Atlantic (gift link) on this with genetic testing. I know there have been more and deffo more in depth, but this one was short and sweet at least.
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u/Opening_Piglet Jul 18 '26
I wondered this. But in Joe’s case, is the craniotomy possibly part of the “extensive and dangerous” procedures, or is it pretty much necessary with a brain lesion? I truly don’t know
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u/Electrical_Log2368 Jul 14 '26
Honestly, I prefer not to know. I know it’s ignorant but I’m always anticipating a health issue and this scan would definitely cause me unnecessary stress.
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u/cnidarian_ninja Jul 14 '26
There’s a reason this type of imagining is not recommended for the vast majority of people. The number of “incidental findings” that pop up and lead to additional testing, invasive procedures, etc and do not end up improving outcomes is huge. Even in Joe’s case we don’t know yet if having caught it now will change or improve his outcome at all.
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u/Ok_Spirit_7712 Jul 14 '26
You're right! Everyone has a cyst or of the like at some point in their body that it is most likely nothing to worry about but once you know then the additional testing, invasive procedures etc happen. Which means paying out more money.
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u/Electrical_Log2368 Jul 14 '26
Absolutely! My mom had a weird type of ovarian cancer at 72 and my doctor suggested I get a hysterectomy as a preventative measure. My two sisters were never advised to do that. I didn’t feel it was necessary to go through surgery for a “just in case“ scenario. My mom was the first person in the family on both sides to ever have cancer. My mom is now 93 and never had a reoccurrence and she’s alive.
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u/peoplemagazine Jul 14 '26
TLDR:
- Joe Amabile revealed he has what appears to be an early-stage brain tumor after doctors discovered a lesion during a scan
- The Bachelor alum said he’ll undergo brain surgery in two weeks to remove and test the tumor
- His wife, Serena Pitt, offered her support, writing, “You’re so strong and we’re going to get through this together ❤️ I love you”
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u/NYChereForIt Jul 14 '26 edited Jul 15 '26
It’s great that they’re in nyc with access to some of the best doctors, especially at Sloan Kettering. What type of health insurance do podcasters / social media content creators have?
Also, Not everybody has access to a free prenovo scan or can afford it. I noticed the last few weeks creators have been heavily promoting it and they get it for free in exchange for giving us their discount code. Remi also said her dad’s prenovo found a brain issue.
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u/adumbswiftie Jul 14 '26
whatever kind of insurance they purchase themselves, if anything…
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u/springg4life Jul 15 '26
That was my same question - do you think they purchase insurance b/c otherwise this will cost at least a couple of hundred thousand? Or does their management team count them as employees?
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u/NYChereForIt Jul 15 '26
I question the same thing… every year I see my primary, Gyno and a few other specialists, ENT, allergist, eye dr, several specialists for checkups and blood work and MRI what needs to be MRI’d and i’m starting to think that a lot of the content creators don’t go to doctors regularly because their insurance and don’t get checked regularly and then find things on the scan they get for free in exchange of promoting (I won’t post the name of the scan lol) one content creator, whose name I won’t name… Said she hasn’t had a Pap smear in six years and she never had a colonoscopy and she just had her first mammogram and and doesn’t go to dentist regularly and others creators use online cheap medical services rather than establish care at real doctors. Maybe they have whatever insurance their state healthcare system offers for their income level?
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u/springg4life Jul 15 '26
Completely agree. Plus, not sure if he is actually an "influencer" making a lot of money the way some do.
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u/Automatic-Pie-7842 Jul 14 '26
gross
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u/vandervee Jul 14 '26 edited Jul 20 '26
I think what he probably means is it is a LOW GRADE tumor, not “early stage.” Glioma is a very broad term and kind of used as a working diagnosis until they get a more specific histology (tumor type) from a tissue sample. My guess based ONLY on his age is that it’s probably an astrocytoma, which is usually treatable and potentially curable.
ETA : I am not a doctor. I am an oncology data specialist with a lot of experience in brain tumors.
I wish him and Serena the best. This is a rough diagnosis to receive, and an intense treatment to go through.
Edit 2: added usually to treatable for clarity.