Former Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) announced he has been diagnosed with Stage 4 pancreatic cancer.
The two-term ex-senator, 53, wrote in a lengthy social media post that he received the diagnosis last week.
“I was diagnosed with metastasized, stage-four pancreatic cancer, and am gonna die,” Sasse said Tuesday.
“Advanced pancreatic is nasty stuff; it’s a death sentence,” he added.
Sasse retired from the upper chamber in 2023, having grown frustrated in his final years in office, to become president of the University of Florida.
He left that post last year, allegedly due to the health of his wife, Melissa, in light of what he called “recent epilepsy diagnosis and a new batch of memory issues.”
Prior to his election to the Senate, Sasse was president of Midland University and one of the nation’s youngest chief executives of a post-secondary institution.
