Leading House Republican Steve Scalise announces cancer diagnosis
by Martin Pengelly in Washington from US news | The Guardian on (#6E96N)
Republican says he has treatable blood cancer and has started treatment but expects to continue working
Steve Scalise, the Republican majority leader in the US House of Representatives, said on Tuesday he has cancer.
In a statement, the 57-year-old Louisianan said: After a few days of not feeling like myself this past week, I had some blood work done. The results uncovered some irregularities and after undergoing additional tests, I was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a very treatable blood cancer."
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