Former senator Ben Sasse reveals superior pancreatic most cancers prognosis | EUROtoday

Former Nebraska U.S. Sen. Ben Sasse has been recognized with superior pancreatic most cancers.

Sasse, 53, made the announcement on social media, saying he discovered of the illness final week and is “now marching to the beat of a faster drummer.”

“This is a tough note to write, but since a bunch of you have started to suspect something, I’ll cut to the chase,” Sasse wrote in a prolonged publish.

“Last week I was diagnosed with metastasized, stage-four pancreatic cancer, and am gonna die. Advanced pancreatic is nasty stuff; it’s a death sentence. But I already had a death sentence before last week too — we all do.“

Sasse was first elected to the Senate in 2014. He comfortably won reelection in 2020 after fending off 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 cozied up to adversarial foreign leaders.

Sasse was one of seven Republican senators to vote to convict the former president of “incitement of insurrection” after the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol.

After threats of a public censure again residence, he prolonged his critique to get together loyalists who blindly worship one man and rejected him for his refusal to bend the knee.

He resigned from the Senate in 2023 to function the thirteenth president of the University of Florida after a contentious approval course of. He left that publish the next yr after his spouse was recognized with epilepsy.

Sasse, who has levels from Harvard, St. John’s College and Yale, labored as an assistant secretary of Health and Human Services underneath President George W. Bush. He served as president of Midland University, a small Christian college in jap Nebraska, earlier than he ran for the Senate.

Sasse and his spouse have three kids.

“I’m not going down without a fight. One sub-part of God’s grace is found in the jawdropping advances science has made the past few years in immunotherapy and more,” Sasse wrote.

“Death and dying aren’t the same — the process of dying is still something to be lived.”