Hospital stay that Joe Biden did not know about was for prostate cancer surgery and to treat urinary tract infection, doctors say
The defense secretary, Lloyd Austin, has prostate cancer and his recent secretive hospitalization was for surgery and later to treat a urinary tract infection related to that operation, doctors said on Tuesday.
The 70-year-old Austin was admitted to Walter Reed national military medical center in Washington on 22 December and underwent surgery to treat the cancer. Austin developed the infection a week later. Senior administration and defense officials were not told for days about his hospitalization or his cancer.