Sad news - Ray Flynn battling melanoma, stress and grief

From today's Globe

The younger Flynn said his father has been under intense stress lately. He is grieving over his brother, Dennis, who died last month of a heart attack at 61. On Monday, the former mayor attended a Mass for his brother marking a month since his death.

Flynn has also been battling recurring melanoma, a form of skin cancer, his son said. He said that his father suffered from the disease while he was mayor more than a decade ago and that he has been experiencing symptoms recently. It was the first known disclosure that Raymond Flynn had cancer.

His son said yesterday that the case is not serious but that it may have teamed with other stresses to lead to his father's collapse.