Sick US Secretary of Defense hands over duties to deputy. Lloyd Austin, who is suffering from cancer, has to be treated in a military hospital because of an acute bladder problem.
At the beginning of the year he came under heavy criticism for keeping secret his diagnosis of prostate cancer and a hospital stay following complications from a procedure. Prostate cancer is the second most common cancer among men in the United States after nonmelanoma skin cancer. In the early stages, the chances of recovery are generally good.