Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein makes first TV appearance after 600 hours of chemotherapy

Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd C. Blankfein on Wednesday morning made his first TV appearance since revealing that he had cancer last fall.

In September, Blankfein said he had a "highly curable" form of lymphoma. Since then, he has been undergoing hundreds of hours of chemotherapy treatments.

Blankfein appeared on CNBC's "Squawk Box" on Wednesday morning and said he was feeling "great."

The interview wasn't focused only on his cancer; it also touched on the economy and monetary policy.

While it was Blankfein's first TV appearance since he announced that he had cancer, he did give a talk in November for a Veterans on Wall Street event, and he had been going to work.

"I've always been very reality based," Blankfein told CNBC. "I've always been 'no choice no problem.' From the moment I got it, the diagnosis, I just went about it. I dealt with it. It turns out I was able to handle the meds pretty well, like 600 hours of chemo during this last few months. But I was able to go to work."

He continued: "And I'll tell you this. Whatever you might think of if you ever were in this kind of situation, how you might reorder your life, at the end of the day, whatever I've been doing for the last 35 years, I must like because I'm still doing it after 35 years. If I liked it before I got sick, I liked it after I got sick. It was actually important for me to go to work, and I felt good about it."

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