Sept. 24 (UPI) -- Michael Caputo, the chief communications official at the Department of Health and Human Services, has been diagnosed with cancer, a week after taking a medical leave of absence, his family spokesman said Thursday.
Caputo underwent surgery last week at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Md., where doctors determined he had "squamous cell carcinoma, a metastatic head and neck cancer which originated in his throat," spokesman David DiPietro said.