"Former Nebraska U.S. Sen. Ben Sasse on Tuesday said he was diagnosed with advanced pancreatic cancer. Sasse, 53, made the announcement on social media, saying he learned of the disease last 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. Last week I was diagnosed with metastasized, stage-four pancreatic cancer, and am gonna die."
"Sasse was first elected to the Senate in 2014 and won reelection in 2020. He resigned in 2023 to serve as the president of the University of Florida after a contentious approval process. He left that post the following year after his wife was diagnosed with epilepsy. Sasse was an outspoken critic of President Donald Trump, and he was one of seven Republican senators to vote to convict the former president of incitement of insurrection after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol."
"Midland is a small Christian university in eastern Nebraska. Sasse and his wife have three children. 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."
Ben Sasse, 53, was diagnosed last week with metastasized, stage-four pancreatic cancer and faces a terminal prognosis. He served as a U.S. senator from Nebraska, first elected in 2014 and reelected in 2020, and resigned in 2023 to become president of the University of Florida, leaving that role the following year after his wife developed epilepsy. He previously served as assistant secretary at Health and Human Services and as president of Midland University. He holds degrees from Harvard, St. John's College and Yale and has three children. He referenced recent advances in immunotherapy and intends to keep fighting the disease.
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