Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
NBA Great Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Has Rare Cancer
Posted on Nov 10, 2009 @ 07:50AM - 1 comment
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Basketball legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar has been privately battling a rare form of leukemia for nearly a year, but the Los Angeles Lakers legend says his long-term prognosis is very good and he expects to continue living a normal, healthy life.
The 62-year-old NBA Hall of Famer and father of five revealed Monday that he has a condition called Philadelphia chromosome-positive chronic myeloid leukemia -- a cancer of the blood and bone marrow that produces cancerous blood cells.
