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00:00But a year or so ago you were diagnosed with lymphoma. So how did you deal with that when you first learned the treatment was necessary. Did you think about stepping back from Goldman. I started having some what in hindsight were symptoms at the time that were just little problems that were easily explained in other ways. I had a cough but end of summer allergies I thought I would have aches and pains a little bit when I exercise but I'd never been this age before so I was just knew . I started to lose weight but I'm always trying to lose weight . I just thought I was unusually disciplined. This time around but when I collected all that stuff I went in to see a doctor first saw nothing because he needed anything to test me for when I had prescribed allergy medicine etc. and then a couple of weeks later when it didn't go away I took a full CAT scan and then that lit up like a Christmas tree and he called me up and told me I had lymphoma. So when a doctor tells you you have lymphoma does he say well we can treat it and there's no big problem. Just a matter of treatment or did he say look this could be life threatening. Well it's life threatening for sure . There's 70 apparently over 70 different kinds of lymphoma Hodgkin's non Hodgkin's different kind of things. Each one carries with it its own risks. I had the more aggressive type which is dangerous more dangerous obviously because it's aggressive. If you don't get cured. On the other hand it's curable. So you went in and you were in the hospital I think sometimes you have to go in three or four days for chemo or something like that. The treatment that I had was six three weeks cycles. So for three weeks six times on a cycle basis the first four and a half days of the cycle about 98 hours or so I'd be getting chemo night and day continuously. Did you go for a second and third opinion just to make sure you to say I'm comfortable with the initial prescription. You know it's funny . I don't know. You don't know how to react to things until you live through them. But I didn't do that my whole life is about risk management due diligence in worrying about details and when this happened it was so quick that I knew as I said when I had the CAT scan I knew I had lymphoma but I know what type I had to have a biopsy which is general general surgery and then it takes a week to figure out what you had and you go back and you reports to you and the way these things the way these things work and the way it is the peculiarity of my being a CEO of a public company was you really can't tell anybody until you tell everybody. Right . And so my wife and I could tell nobody. I went I did so during this period time including up until on the way to the hospital to get the biopsy I did I had a press thing the schedule the televised thing with a lot of reporters in the audience I went through we did that whole thing went to the hospital had the biopsy waited five days for the report and on the way to get there know I went to get the results of the report and the thing was so kind of advance and it was so at that point mandated what the treatment would be. I literally went upstairs from the doctor who delivered the results to me right upstairs to strap on the first of the chemo treatments. And so I did not get a second okay. All right. So after all of the treatments now being completed is that right. Yes. Now that you have had this you are in remission right .

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Blankfein on Cancer Diagnosis, Treatment, Recovery

Goldman Sachs Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Lloyd Blankfein discusses learning he had cancer and how he managed his treatment while heading a public company. Blankfein speaks to David Rubenstein in the second episode of "The David Rubenstein Show: Peer-to-Peer Conversations." The full episode airs Wednesday at 8 p.m. New York time on Bloomberg Television. (Source: Bloomberg)

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