The 25-year-old sports reporter with Prime7 Central West was just eight-years-old when he became aware something serious was happening to his mum.

She had gone to the dentist because she thought there was something stuck under her gums and they had found an incredibly rare, highly aggressive tumour.

"My mum was diagnosed with a Chrondoblastic Osteogenic Sarcoma which is a super rare cancer in the jaw. She was the 77th recorded case in history," Mr Corrigan said.

At the time of his mum's diagnosis, the Corrigan family were living in Jindabyne and treatment for her aggressive tumour had begun within a week of her seeing the dentist.

This was followed by a two-month hospital stay, then stints between two and three weeks for the next five years thereafter.

The family were fortunate enough to have enough of a support network in their town for Mr Corrigan and his twin sister to always have places to stay while their parents were away, but needed help with the basic expenses.

This was where Cancer Council stepped in; paying for bills and other essentials as the family went backwards and forwards between Canberra and Jinabyne over the next few years.

While Mr Corrigan hadn't been too aware at the time of Cancer Council's role in keeping things afloat, he now knows his family would've been "stuffed" without the charity's support.

"I knew mum was unwell, but as an eight-year-old you don't quite know what's going on," he said.

"As I got older and I learnt more about what Cancer Council did [for my family], you get a new appreciation for what they do."

For the past month the sports reporter has been training weekly with the dance studio, Revolution Aerial, and has now got to a stage where he's "pretty chuffed" with what he can do on a pole.

In the lead-up to the gala night on June 26, Mr Corrigan will also be fundraising.

Part of that will entail a second edition of "Vinyl in the Vines" - a mini-music festival which was first instigated by his Prime7 colleague Mel Wightman for her own Stars of Orange fundraising efforts in 2019.

Held on May 8 at Mortimer's Wines from 2pm, "every cent" will go to Cancer Council.

Tickets are $40 per person and can be purchased from the 123tix website.

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