🎀 Former Panthers RB (NFL) DeAngelo Williams covers 500 mammograms in late mom's honor
The retired football player has sponsored hundreds of breast cancer screenings in several states to honor his mother and aunts he lost to the disease.
Former Carolina Panthers and Pittsburgh Steelers running back DeAngelo Williams has been bucking cancer like he used to do defenders, sponsoring more than 500 mammograms in honor of his mother who died from breast cancer at the age of 53.
Williams, who played in college at Memphis and was drafted in the first round of the 2006 NFL Draft by the Panthers, started covering the cost for breast cancer screenings in 2015 through his nonprofit, The DeAngelo Williams Foundation.
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Now, his organization has covered the expenses of over 500 mammograms at hospitals in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Memphis, Tennessee; Jonesboro, Arkansas; and Charlotte, North Carolina, TODAY reports.
Williams' mother, Sandra Hill, died from breast cancer, and he also lost his four aunts to the disease before the age of 50.
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