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Former carolina linebacker Panthers Dean Wells Died after a two -year battle with cancer. It was 54.
Wells, who played in the NFL for nearly a decade, died on Wednesday, April 3. the Carolina Panthers.
In addition to the Panthers, the professional athlete also played for the Seattle Seahawks, which he was drafted in 1993. Before his NFL career, he played to Kentucky University during his college -footed career. Wells retired from professional football in 2001.
Wells was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (each) in early 2023 and began chemotherapy. According to the Mayo clinic, everything is a type of blood and bone marrow cancer and is “a rapidly moving disease and creating immature blood cells, rather than mature ones.”
Following months of chemo treatment, Wells cancer initially entered relief before he received the news in the fall later that he had returned.
Wells talked about his cancer fight with a sports outlet Ksr in April 2024.
“Show me who to tackle and I can do that,” Wells told the outlet. “This is in the hands of the doctors and it is in the hands of God.”
In the same interview, Wells shared details of the support he had been receiving from those around him and how he was trying to stay positive at the center of the difficult diagnosis.
Dean Wells.
(Photo by Scott Halleran /Allsport)“So many fellow players have reached out. ‘You’re one of the hardest men I’ve ever met. I know you’ll beat this,” he said. “There’s a mental toughness that comes into it. You have to have a positive attitude you can beat. I’ve done everything I can with that. It’s like the chemo either works or doesn’t have. You don’t have much control over it. You want you to have more control.”
Wells added that he learned his positive attitude from his mother.
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“To speak in general, my mother was a very positive person and I think it was a kind of rubbing on me in that regard,” he added. “Not that I don’t have fear and everything else you would expect with the possibility of dying, but you still find a way to enjoy every day and stay positive.”
According to the Carolina Panthers, Wells spent much of the final year of his life raising awareness of how to help in the fight against cancer, including encouraging people to donate, donating cancer research initiatives and joining a bone marrow registry.
Wells has been survived by his wife Lisa and two sons.
