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“I’m trying to keep everybody from being in the space of changing because you hurt enough I hurt to the point where I had to change. “I want to put the information out there and hope that some people will either change when they know enough or some people will find out about my story and decide they want to change,” says Muhammad. Muhammad says his organization aims to curate what an individual needs in terms of their personal health goals.
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Muhammad says he’s now in “pre-remission” - the term his doctor uses for partial remission - and pushing ahead with his music career and urging Black men to take steps to protect their health, working with the American Cancer Association and his own nonprofit GOTU Hope Inc. He says the shocking deaths of his friend Timbuck2, the Chicago DJ who died in 2015 of kidney cancer, and actor Chadwick Boseman helped make clear that Black men need to take their health seriously. That was particularly devastating because he was resuming his music career after a mastectomy and chemotherapy. Muhammad’s second cancer diagnosis came in 2017 - Stage 4. African American men have higher rates of breast cancer than white men, according to a 2019 study by the JNCI Cancer Spectrum. I felt like a lot of people feel in that situation - I felt cursed.”Ībout one out of 100 breast cancer diagnoses in the United States involves a man, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports. “I thought: How the hell is this happening to me? I couldn’t believe it. Chicago rapper Antwone Muhammad, who goes by the name A.M7, belongs to a club he wants no part of: the small group of men who’ve received the grim - even shocking - diagnosis of breast cancer.ĭoctors “broke it down to me, and I heard their words, but I didn’t hear their words: ‘Stage 3 cancer,’ ” says Muhammad, who was first diagnosed in December 2013.