Janet W. Lee Four summers ago, Keesha Sharp found out that her mother had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer — the third leading cause of cancer-related deaths in America.
Sadly, her mom died in August.However, Sharp, who starred as Monica on this hit sitcom “Girlfriends,” and has more recently been seen on “Empire” and “The Good Fight,” is turning her grief into action.
She has teamed up with Stand Up to Cancer and the Lustgarten Foundation on the Pancreatic Cancer Collective initiative to help promote clinical trials.“My mom eventually tried them toward the end.
She was so sick, and yet, she felt like it was working,” the actor-director tells Variety. “She was given one to three more months to live, but it was still too late for her.”.
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