Former Senate Democratic leader Harry M. Reid has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and underwent surgery Monday to remove the tumor, his family said. “His doctors caught the problem early during a routine screening and his surgeons are confident that the surgery was a success and that the prognosis for his recovery is good,” the Reid family said. The former majority leader announced that he would retire after three decades in the Senate in early 2015. Reid was succeeded in his Senate seat by Democrat Catherine Cortez Masto and as leader of Senate Democrats by Sen. Charles E. Schumer of New York. We are all praying for dear Harry’s speedy recovery.”Later on the Senate floor, Schumer said Reid’s surgery “couldn’t have gone much better,” particularly considering the seriousness of pancreatic cancer.

Source: Washington Post May 14, 2018 19:42 UTC