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Oscar-winning actor Lou Gossett is in the early stages of a battle against prostate cancer.<\/p>\n
<\/span><\/p>\n In the announcement Tuesday, Gossett, 73, says the disease was caught early and he expects to make a full recovery.<\/p>\n “I count this diagnosis among the many challenges I have faced in my life and overcome. I expect this to be no different…..”<\/em><\/p>\n The actor is going public about the disease because there is not enough emphasis in the African-American community on fighting it with preventive examinations and early treatment.<\/p>\n Gossett — who has appeared in dozens of films — won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in 1983 for his portrayal of a barking Navy flight school sergeant alongside Richard Gere in An Officer and a Gentleman.<\/p>\n His personal memoir, An Actor and a Gentleman<\/em>, set for release May 17.<\/p>\n Oscar-winning actor Lou Gossett is in the early stages of a battle against prostate cancer. In the announcement Tuesday, Gossett, 73, says the disease was caught early and he expects to make a full recovery. “I count this diagnosis among the many challenges I have faced in my life and overcome. I expect this to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5335,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-298994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/img><\/a>
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