Famed billionaire investor Warren Buffett has been diagnosed with stage-1 prostate cancer, according to Bloomberg TV and other reports. Berkshire Hathaway, the firm where the 81-year-old Buffett is CEO, said the diagnosis "isn’t remotely life threatening."
Buffett said in a letter to shareholders Tuesday that he received his diagnosis last Wednesday, according to the Wall Street Journal. He added that the scans that detected the prostate cancer "showed no incidence of cancer elsewhere in my body." He wrote that he plans to begin a two-month daily regimen of radiation treatment starting in mid-July.
Buffett added that he would let shareholders know "immediately" if his health situation changes.
外语学习网"Eventually, of course, it will; but I believe that day is a long way off," Buffett wrote in the letter.
Buffett’s successor is a constant topic of speculation among the financial community. He said in February that the company has someone in mind to take his place once he steps down, but he emphasized at the time that he had no plans to leave his post.
Buffett told CBS’ 60 Minutes that he wants his son Howard to become a "non-executive chairman" of the company after the elder Buffett dies. The position would give Howard a role in directing the strategy of the company, but he wouldn’t be paid.
