By Canadian Press

Alabama Gov. Ivey says she is being treated for malignancy

Sep 19, 2019 | 12:24 PM

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey says she will receive treatment for a malignancy discovered on her lung.

Ivey said Thursday that the cancer is treatable and will not prevent her from serving as governor.

The 74-year-old Republican says the spot was discovered in a routine exam and called it a tiny, isolated malignancy.

Ivey said she will have an outpatient procedure at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and then will have radiation treatments.

In a statement, Ivey says she feels lucky the cancer was caught early and “confident of God’s plan and purpose for my life.”

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Ivey says she announced the diagnosis because she always intends to “shoot straight” with voters.

Kim Chandler, The Associated Press