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The former President of the University of Florida has Stage 4 pancreatic cancer.
Ben Sasse, who served as a U.S. senator out of Nebraska before becoming president at UF, broke the news on social media, writing that “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.”
The 53-year-old Republican adds that he is not going down without a fight.
Sasse left the senate in 2023 to serve as president at UF for over a year before announcing that he was stepping down due to his wife's health issues at the time.
He had stayed on as a professor.