Former GOP Sen. Ben Sasse Says He Has Stage 4 Pancreatic Cancer And Is 'Gonna Die'

[lostincalifornia]

Former Nebraska GOP Sen. Ben Sasse announced Tuesday that he has Stage 4 pancreatic cancer.

"This is a tough note to write, but since a bunch of you have started to suspect something, I’ll cut to the chase: Last week I was diagnosed with metastasized, stage-four pancreatic cancer, and am gonna die," Sasse posted on X. "Advanced pancreatic is nasty stuff; it’s a death sentence. But I already had a death sentence before last week too — we all do."

While Sasse said he has "got less time that I'd prefer," he also said he plans to keep fighting until the end.

"I’m not going down without a fight," he wrote. "One sub-part of God’s grace is found in the jawdropping advances science has made the past few years in immunotherapy and more. Death and dying aren’t the same — the process of dying is still something to be lived. We’re zealously embracing a lot of gallows humor in our house, and I’ve pledged to do my part to run through the irreverent tape."

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[ok_cpu]

1. Would not wish this on anyone

It's a grim diagnosis and a terrible way to pass. Godspeed.

[Norbert]

2. Neither would I.

[Jilly_in_VA]

4. Me either

My son-in-law's mother died of it. One day she was perfectly healthy, the next day she "hit a wall" while running (she was an avid runner), went to the doctor who orderedan ultrasound, and was diagnosed with Stage 4 pancreatic cancer. She died the following spring, not long after the graduation party for our grandson Isaiah.

As my friend Lindsey Marie said when I told her, "Pancreatic cancer is rattlesnake cancer." I knew exactly what she meant.

[Javaman]

3. I know of two people, one a work friend and the other known through work, that had Pancreatic Cancer.

not fun.

cancer sucks. period.

[delisen]

5. Sasse had a spending scandal as head of Florida University recently

There are some reports of a link between new onset mood disorder/mania and pancreatic cancer.

I wonder if there is a connection, and, if so whether behavioral changes might be a warning sign

[rampartd]

6. can i call that "performative stoicism?"

there are great new cancer treatments, that were getting better week by week as i was doing chemotherapy. I hope that sen sasse has an opportunity to experience every aspect of our system's "invisible hands."

my prayer for the new year is that the cancer research continue, and that every human in america who needs the drugs can get them. shout out to st blaise.

[yourout]

7. Cancer sucks. Especially pancreatic. Right now mRNA treatments

Are one of the few things showing any hope of battling it.