Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin treated for prostate cancer, severe infection: Pentagon
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was hospitalized on Jan. 1 for complications following surgery nearly two weeks earlier to treat prostate cancer, doctors at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center revealed Tuesday. The disclosure of Austin's diagnosis and cause of his hospitalization came amid controversy over the Pentagon's failure for days to inform the White House or the public that the Defense secretary had been admitted to Walter Reed, where he ended up in the intensive care unit. Pentagon officials also failed for two days last week to notify Austin's second-in-command that he had transferred authority to her while he was in the ICU, and while she was in Puerto Rico. President Joe Biden only learned Austin's prostate cancer diagnosis on Tuesday morning, three d