Wife of Chadwick Boseman vits Boston, urges early detection of colorectal cancer [Video]

The wife of the late actor Chadwick Boseman visited Boston’s Dana-Farber Cancer Institute as part of Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, sharing her journey to advocacy after the death of her husband. Boseman was well known for his starring role in the movie, “Black Panther.” He passed away in 2020 from colorectal cancer at the age of 43.Singer, artist, and colorectal cancer caregiver Simone Ledward-Boseman was the keynote speaker at the 5th Annual Patient and Family Forum at the Young-Onset Colorectal Cancer Center at Dana-Farber Brigham Cancer Center. The center is among the first centers in the country dedicated to young patients with colorectal cancer.Young-onset colorectal cancer refers to the diagnosis of colorectal cancer in individuals younger than 50 years old. Colorectal cancer is now the leading cause of cancer deaths in men under the age of 50 and the second among women of the same age, according to the American …