New York: Goldman Sachs CEO and Chairman Lloyd Blankfein has a form of lymphoma, but says that it is “highly curable.” Blankfein wrote on the firm’s website Tuesday that he underwent a series of tests after not feeling well for several weeks. The executive said he’ll receive chemotherapy in New York over the next several months as part of his cancer treatment plan. He will be reducing his travel, but expects to be able to “work substantially as normal.”
“My doctors’ and my own expectation is that I will be cured,” Blankfein said. Last year JPMorgan Chase & Co. CEO Jamie Dimon disclosed he had throat cancer, for which he was successfully treated. Born in the Bronx and raised in public housing, Blankfein has been a near life-long employee of Goldman, rising through the ranks in the firm’s commodities trading business. -AP
