Abdul-jabbar reveals past cancer diagnosis
NEW YORK — Kareem Abdul-jabbar revealed he had prostate cancer in a magazine article he wrote about health risks faced by Blacks.
AbdulJabbar, the NBA’S career scoring leader, provided no other details about that illness in the piece he wrote for WEBMD that first appeared Wednesday.
Abdul-jabbar, now 73, was diagnosed with chronic myeloid leukemia in 2008.
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