The actor opened up about his diagnosis in a recent interview with Black Health Matters, where he noted that he has a family history of prostate cancer.
“It’s not the kind of news anyone wants to hear, but to be honest, prostate cancer has run through my family. My father had it. He had a lot of brothers; several of them had it,” he said. “I would have been surprised if I hadn’t gotten it.”
However, Pickens Jr. revealed his doctors told him they were “able to catch it so early because you were being tested,” as he explained that he was referred to a urologist after undergoing a routine physical where his PSA levels were examined.
“I went back in January, and when my PSA numbers came back, my primary said, ‘Yeah,…
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