Plausiblity check: fanon lives longer and gets more notice in US?

So in the interest of more intellectual history-based timelines, I'm interested in working out the plausiblity of Frantz Fanon living longer and becoming noteworthy in the US in the late 50s/early 60s. OTL he had leukemia and died in 1961, so obviously he can't live to 99 but some of his work in Algeria probably damaged his health a lot. If he decides to take better care of himself in the late 40s/early 50s and gets diagnosed a few years earlier than he did(assuming that is possible), could he live, say, 3-5 years longer? Also, could he become more prominent in the US? He did live in the US for the last year of his life seeking treatment at the Naval Hospital.
EDIT: In case people go "Who that", here's a nice potted biography of him: http://www.webcitation.org/5YeKOT6P7
 
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