OMAHA, Neb. (KMTV) — Former U.S. Senator from Nebraska, Ben Sasse, announced on his Facebook page on Tuesday morning that he has stage-four pancreatic cancer. He called it a "death sentence" in the post.
"Last week I was diagnosed with metastasized, stage-four pancreatic cancer, and am gonna die," he wrote.
Sasse, 53, served as a U. S. Senator from 2015 to 2023. After resigning from the Senate, Sasse was hired as the president of the University of Florida. A little more than a year later, he resigned from his position at the University of Florida citing his wife's epilepsy as a reason.
According to Sasse's Facebook post, he received the diagnosis last week.
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