Actor

Best known for his role as the sex-machine private detective, John Shaft, in the 1970 film Shaft, Richard Roundtree is proof that breast cancer affects men too. Roundtree discovered a lump in his right breast in 1993 and received chemotherapy, radiation treatments and a mastectomy. He has acted in a number of TV shows and films, including the 2000 remake of Shaft, starring Samuel L. Jackson. Roundtree is now a breast cancer advocate, working with the Susan G. Komen Foundation to raise men's awareness of the disease and speaking to men's groups about early detection.