Reedley High student walks across graduation stage amid ongoing cancer battle

REEDLEY, Calif. (KFSN) -- A Reedley High School elder walked crossed the graduation signifier connected Thursday aft a agelong conflict with cancer.

Malachi Rios was diagnosed with signifier 4 testicular cancer, which dispersed passim his assemblage successful 2022.

He went into remission by May of 2023 and was capable to articulation his squad connected the shot tract for his elder twelvemonth astatine Reedley High School.

His crab returned and aft dense chemotherapy, doctors deemed him incurable by chemo and radiation.

Last month, Malachi went to Cancun, Mexico to a halfway that offers a holistic attack to treatment.

He precocious attended his elder prom and was crowned prom king.

A GoFundMe relationship has been acceptable up to assistance enactment Malachi during his ongoing treatment.