Broncos Inside Linebacker Is Trying To Stop A Cancer That Nearly Took His Life
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One of the things that differentiates the Denver Broncos from many other NFL teams is the work many of the players do in the community. It sounds like a cliché, but for linebacker Alex Singleton, it's not. Singleton has dedicated himself to working for the local chapter of the Testicular Cancer Awareness Foundation, and he's happy to do it.
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His involvement started with an email from Kim Jones, the founder of the organization. It was a cold email from Jones, who didn't know Singleton, but he was quick to respond and get involved.
Singleton is well aware of why he did this. Screening for testicular, cancer revealed elevated hormonal levels, then indicated that he had this cancer. The random screening cost him some games this year when he had surgery, but it also saved his life, so he's more than willing to do the same for others.
“I said, ‘You are the typical male that lets things go,'” Jones said in an article written by Luca Evans of the Denver Post. “And it could have spread a lot faster than what it did for him. So thank God he had that random drug screening.”
“I was just kinda gonna do whatever I could do,” Singleton said, “to be involved in that.”
Involvement describes what you want is doing and then some. He participates in awareness events, marches in rallies, and is always willing to lend himself to the cause.
The awareness makes a difference many of the men who discovered this sort of cancer. Some don't make it through it, and Singleton help them by making of making them aware of what it takes to learn about the problem before it becomes serious.
“I am profoundly grateful to Alex – for Alex – for him using his platform to help support the fight,” Jones told The Post. “Because his voice will help prevent late-stage diagnosis. It will help save lives.”
Singleton also uses humor to broach a potentially different difficult subject anything to get men to talk about it, because that's how lives are saved.
“That’s all it is,” Singleton said. “It’s getting comfortable with talking about ‘em, and then being able to discuss stuff.
“Because, I think it’s the same thing with breast cancer,” he continued. “I mean, when I was 10 years old, before the whole pink movement in the NFL — if you would’ve said, ‘breast,’ I would’ve thought it was funny at first. Or ‘boob.’ But I think we have normalized breast cancer in our culture. And I think that makes it good. It makes women be able to talk about it. It’s comfortable if you have breast cancer to say, ‘I have breast cancer.’”
Singleton even interacts with his teammates about this. Jahdae Barron is one of them and Barron has participated in several of these events.
“It’s funny,” Singleton said. “But it’s also like, man, if it just takes one guy one time in their career to feel a bump on their nuts and — they don’t have to tell Jahdae, they don’t have to tell me — but if they tell one of our trainers like, ‘Hey, I got this funny bump,’ just because he’s been yelling it every day, that’s incredible.”