What kind of cancer did OJ have? [Video]

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Former Buffalo Bills player OJ Simpson died from prostate cancer.

It’s something that one out of every six African-American men in the United States are diagnosed with prostate cancer in their lifetime. That’s compared to 1 in 8 men overall.

Those statistics are something Dr. Adam Sumlin with Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center is studying.

Dr. Sumlin and other researchers want to know why Black men are almost twice as likely to be diagnosed with this form of cancer.

“What we’re finding out is that is basically the knowledge that African-American men take on prostate cancer and the fact that they rarely go to their physicians for treatment or for physicals or for anything, they stay away mostly. So therefore, the disease is diagnosed at them at a later stage,” Dr. Sumlin said.

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