Mitt Romney was diagnosed and treated for prostate cancer last year
The disease was removed before it spread beyond the prostate.
Mitt Romney was diagnosed and treated for prostate cancer last year, two aides to the former Massachusetts governor and 2012 Republican presidential nominee told Boston.com Monday.
CNN’s Jake Tapper, who first reported the news, said that Romney was “successfully treated” last summer at UC Irvine Medical Center in California. According to Tapper, the 70-year-old former governor’s prognosis is “good.”
Source close to @MittRomney:
“Mitt Romney was treated over the summer for prostate cancer. He was treated surgically by Dr. Thomas Ahlering at UC Irvine Hospital in California. His prognosis is good; he was successfully treated.”
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) January 8, 2018
The aides confirmed Tapper’s report Monday afternoon and said that Romney was diagnosed with the “slow-growing” cancer last year.
“The cancer was removed surgically and found not to have spread beyond the prostate,” one aide said.
Romney has reportedly been preparing to launch a U.S. Senate campaign in Utah, where he now resides.
A source close to Romney told The Boston Globe after the news of last year’s cancer treatment broke Monday that there is “nothing healthwise preventing him from running.”
