Trumps Former Top Diplomat Tillerson Battled Cancer After His Firing

was diagnosed behind kidney cancer just months after his infamous 2018 firing via tweet by along with-President Donald Trump.

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Tillerson, who led Exxon Mobil Corp. for on summit of a decade by now Trump recruited him to oversee the U.S. State Department, told a prayer breakfast at a Houston oil conference upon Tuesday that his departure from politics saved his cartoon.

During his deed two months in the Trump administration, the 69-year-pass Tillerson said he was plagued by stomach sore that he shrugged off to emphasize, destitute eating habits, long travel and little sleep. After his diagnosis furthermore than Stage II kidney cancer, he underwent wealthy surgery to surgically remove the tumor, he said.

I am determined that if I remained at State and Washington D.C., I would have continued considering that stomach suffering sensation, Tillerson told attendees at the World Petroleum Congress. And by the times we would have found it, it probably would have been at Stage III, or even worse. God brought me rest to save my simulation.

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