Albany County comptroller battling cancer

Posted at: 10/22/2012 11:52 AM | Updated at: 10/22/2012 1:04 PM
By: Andrew Murphy

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ALBANY - Albany County Comptroller Mike Conners says he's battling cancer.

He wrote on his Times Union blog that he was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma last Friday.

Conners has been the comptroller for nearly 17 years.

According to the National Cancer Institute, there will be more than 70,000 new cases of non-Hodgkin lymphoma in the U.S. this year.





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