Goldman Sachs chief executive Lloyd Blankfein said on September 22 that he has lymphoma and expects to undergo chemotherapy over the next several months in New York.

"My treatment plan will include chemotherapy over the next several months in New York," Lloyd Blankfein, Goldman's chairman and chief executive, wrote in a message distributed to employees and on the Wall Street firm's website. "My doctors have advised me that during the treatment, I will be able to work substantially as normal, leading the firm."