US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has prostate cancer, the hospital treating him says. The disease was recognized early and the prognosis for a cure is “excellent,” Walter Reed Military Hospital in Bethesda, Maryland – outside of the US capital – announced on Tuesday. The Pentagon in Washington has been criticized for not telling either President Joe Biden or the public quickly about Austin’s condition. The 70-year-old has been hospitalized since the beginning of the year due to complications following an operation at the end of December. The prostate cancer was diagnosed at the beginning o…