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Article: Dr. Ben Carson: top surgeon's life-and-death struggle with prostate cancer.(Interview)
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- Ebony
- Article date:
- January 1, 2003
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BEN Carson will never forget that day last June. The famed pediatric neurosurgeon was in the midst of a delicate brain operation when a nurse handed him the telephone. On the other end of the line was his doctor. What he was told would change his life forever. The Detroit native (whose single mother, with a third-grade education, raised him to become one of the greatest neurosurgeons in the world) had prostate cancer, the high-grade type that spreads aggressively and kills at a high rate. He was told that he would need to have surgery fight away.
"I had asked that I be notified as soon as they found out," says Carson, who had undergone a biopsy after noticing he ...