walakerFARGO, N.D. (AP) – The Fargo mayor says he has checked into a local facility to help with his treatment for kidney cancer.
 
     Dennis Walaker was diagnosed earlier this summer with renal cell carcinoma. He said in a statement Monday that he’s improving every day and will continue his “course of treatment very soon.”
 
     The mayor of North Dakota’s largest city says the first two weeks of chemotherapy and radiation treatment seemed to go well, but he developed an adverse reaction to prescribed medication and was hospitalized.
 
     Walaker says he returned home briefly upon leaving the hospital, but has since entered another facility. He was not specific.
 
     Walaker says his family convinced him in July to see a doctor because he was losing weight. He was re-elected to a third term in June.