Benjamin Eric “Ben” Sasse, who served as the junior United States senator from Nebraska from 2015 to 2023, announced on Dec. 23 that he was diagnosed with terminal cancer.
Sasse has metastatic stage-four pancreatic cancer and was diagnosed last week, according to a social media post he wrote announcing the news.
The 53-year-old suggested that he would consider treatment but indicated that his life expectancy was now limited.
“Last week I was diagnosed with metastasized, stage-four pancreatic cancer, and am gonna die. Advanced pancreatic is nasty stuff; it’s a death sentence,” wrote Sasse.
“I’ll have more to say. I’m not going down without a fight. One sub-part of God’s grace is found in the jaw-dropping advances science has made in the past few years in immunotherapy and more,” he added….