Former senator reveals stage 4 cancer diagnosis and says he’s ‘going to die’

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East nebraska US Sen. ben sasse Have been diagnosed with advanced pancreatitis cancer,

53 year old Sasse made Announcement He said on social media that he learned about the disease last week and that he is “now marching to the beat of a strong drummer.”

“This is a difficult note to write, but since some of you are beginning to have some doubts, I’ll cut to the chase,” Sasse wrote In a long post.

“Last week I was diagnosed with metastasized, stage-four pancreatic cancerAnd I’m about to die. Advanced pancreas is a bad thing; This is a death sentence. But I already got the death penalty last week – we all do.”

Sasse was first elected to the Senate in 2014. He comfortably won re-election in 2020 after defeating a pro-Trump primary challenger. Sasse drew the ire of GOP activists for his vocal criticism of Trump’s character and policies, including questioning his moral values ​​and saying he collaborated with hostile foreign leaders.

Senator Ben Sasse is formally sworn in by U.S. Vice President Joe Biden along with Sasse's wife Melissa Sasse, son Augustin Sasse and daughter Elizabeth Sasse in the Old Senate Chamber of the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2015 in Washington, DC.

Senator Ben Sasse is formally sworn in by U.S. Vice President Joe Biden along with Sasse’s wife Melissa Sasse, son Augustin Sasse and daughter Elizabeth Sasse in the Old Senate Chamber of the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2015 in Washington, DC. ,Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images,

Sasse was one of seven Republican senators who voted to convict the former president of “incitement of insurrection” following the attack on the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.

Following threats of public condemnation at home, he criticized party loyalists who blindly worship a man and reject him if he refuses to kneel.

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He resigned from the Senate in 2023 to serve as the 13th president of the University of Florida after a controversial confirmation process. He left that position the following year after his wife was diagnosed with epilepsy.

Sasse, who has degrees from Harvard, St. John’s College and Yale, served as assistant secretary of Health and Human Services under President George W. Bush. Before running for the Senate, he served as president of Midland University, a small Christian university in eastern Nebraska.

Sasse and his wife have three children.

“I will not give up without a fight. A byproduct of God’s grace is found in the tremendous progress science has made in the past few years in immunotherapy and other areas,” Sasse wrote.

“Death and dying are not the same – the process of dying is still worth living.”

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