US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has cancelled his trip to Brussels to meet with NATO ministers and work on Ukraine military aid after being hospitalized with complications from prostate cancer.
Austin, 70, was taken to Walter Reed Military Medical Center on Sunday with symptoms suggesting an emergent bladder issue, the Pentagon said.
Austin had failed to disclose a prostate cancer surgery in December and a subsequent hospitalization in January to deal with its complications. This month, the cabinet secretary apologized for failing to tell Biden and senior staff about his cancer diagnosis, adding that the health scare was a gut punch that had shaken him.
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