Ex-Denver Broncos running back Ronnie Hillman’s family said in a statement on Tuesday he was diagnosed with renal medullary carcinoma in August and is currently in hospice care.
Renal medullary carcinoma “is a rare cancer of the kidney that predominantly afflicts young people of African descent who carry the sickle cell trait, sickle cell disease, or other sickle hemoglobinopathies that can cause sickling of the red blood cells.”
