Millcreek Democrat Rep. Patrice Arent, a five-term member of the Utah House and founder of the chamber’s Clean Air Caucus, is being treated for cancer, according to a Friday post on the lawmaker’s Facebook page.
Arent wrote that she has been living with multiple myeloma — a cancer that affects a person’s plasma cells — for 21 months, but that the condition was detected early and that she is receiving treatment from Utah’s Huntsman Cancer Institute.
“With innovative new therapies, my disease is quite manageable,” Arent wrote. “And while every person’s response to treatment is different, my experience has been very positive.