Jared Kushner Reveals He Was Diagnosed With Cancer During Time at White House

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Ivanka Trump's husband, who's also the son-in-law of former President Donald Trump and served as his senior adviser, reveals his medical diagnosis in his upcoming memoir, , according to an excerpt obtained by .Kushner's thyroid cancer was discovered in October 2019, and the dad of three was made aware of the news while aboard Air Force One, he reveals in the excerpt. «On the morning that I traveled to Texas to attend the opening of a Louis Vuitton factory, White House physician Sean Conley pulled me into the medical cabin on Air Force One,» Kushner writes in his memoir, per the . "'Your test results came back from Walter Reed,' he said. 'It looks like you have cancer.

We need to schedule a surgery right away.'«Upon hearing the doctor's diagnosis, Kushner requested that he not tell anyone „especially my wife or my father-in-law,“ he recalls in his memoir.

While the cancer was caught „early,“ the surgery required removing a „substantial part of my thyroid,“ Kushner writes, adding that he was warned that there could be lingering damage to his voice.After a doctor at New York Presbyterian Hospital concluded that surgery was needed „to remove an unusual growth“ in Kushner's thyroid, the operation was scheduled for the Friday before Thanksgiving, so that the former senior adviser „would miss the least amount of time in the office,“ he writes in the book.»This was a personal problem and not for public consumption," he writes.