I was on staff at HQ when VP died. I don't remember being asked to pray for him--though I could be wrong.
I'm sure I never heard anything about cancer. I never new the truth until I found the death certificate on the web years later.
I remember during my interim year we were at H.Q. when VP was having so much trouble with his eye before he had it removed. My (now ex) wife was good friends with a security person, and she told me that security people were sent to different pharmacies to get the MOG's codeine prescriptions filled. Apparently he was taking so much codeine that they couldn't keep going to the same store to get it.
