6 Male Celebrities Who Were Diagnosed With Breast Cancer

The actor best known for playing the eponymous role in 1971's Shaft — the black private dick that's a sex machine to all the chicks — was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1993.

"I thought he was questioning my manhood," he wrote in an essay for Essence in 2009, sharing the day his doctor first told him he had breast cancer. "Women die from this, not men. How could I possibly have that?"

Did He Survive? Yes. After a double mastectomy and chemotherapy.