Overview
- The 73-year-old Grey's Anatomy star disclosed the diagnosis in a Black Health Matters interview, echoing a current storyline involving his character.
- After decades of annual checkups, doctors noticed an abnormality that led to a biopsy confirming a tumor.
- Tomography indicated the cancer had not spread, and he had a robot-assisted radical prostatectomy with a one-night hospital stay.
- Pickens cites a strong family history, saying his father and several of his father's brothers had prostate cancer and that relatives have lived with the disease.
- He underscores that about one in eight men will be diagnosed and that Black men face higher risk, urging regular testing because early detection makes the disease highly treatable.