… deserves much more for her hard efforts and tireless hours spent on me,” he shared on Instagram back in January. “I pray to God to get it together…she’s done NO wrong…this is ALL on me. Cancer will change your life.”
According to the Prostate Cancer Foundation (PCF), African-American men are nearly 1.6 times more likely to develop prostate cancer than Caucasian men. They are also 2.4 times more likely than white men to die from the disease.
Thanks to extensive research and medical trials, the projected deaths from prostate cancer have dropped by more than 50 percent in the last 20 years, according to the PCF. And though the risk for African-American men still remains significantly greater, the gap between five-year survival rates of white and black men has shrunk, according to 2009 data from the Harvard Medical School + Harvard Health Publications.
We are so happy for Nene and Gregg! Here’s to many more years of health!