Pentagon Chief Was Hospitalized Due To Complications After Cancer Surgery

The Pentagon has disclosed that Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin was hospitalised since the beginning of January due to complications from prostate cancer surgery. The surgery reportedly caused infection and he had to be hospitalised at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, a statement from his doctors released by The Pentagon said.

Lloyd Austin was hospitalised since the beginning of January due to complications from prostate cancer surgery (REUTERS/Violeta Santos Moura/File Photo)(REUTERS)

The statement from Austin’s doctors, John Maddox and Gregory Chestnut, said that his surgery was done on December 22. All went well with the surgery but he was under general anaesthesia. "The cancer was detected early and his prognosis is excellent," the doctors said.