Washington • U.S. Ambassador to Russia Jon Huntsman has been diagnosed with early-stage skin cancer and has been treated at a cancer hospital in Salt Lake City founded by his family.
Huntsman, a former Utah governor, flew to Utah a few weeks ago to seek treatment at the Huntsman Cancer Institute for Stage 1 Melanoma. Huntsman is hopeful the doctors had removed all of the cancerous cells.
Stage 1 skin cancer is diagnosed as “no larger than 2 millimeters thick and/or an ulceration,” according to the institute, founded by Huntsman’s father, Jon Huntsman Sr.