RAY WEST - Kanye West Dad Diagnosed With Prostate Cancer

Kanye West' s father , Ray West , is battling cancer . .. TMZ has learned.

Sources close to Ray tell us he' s been diagnosed with prostate cancer -- not stomach cancer as has been widely reported . We ' re told Kanye dropped everything to help his dad upon hearing the news .

Ray is currently being treated in L .A . , and sources say he ' s responding well. We ' re being told that, for now, it looks like he' s going to be okay.
The diagnosis comes just over 10 years after the death of Kanye' s mother , Donda , to whom he was very close and whose death helped trigger his mental breakdown in 2016.

Ye and his pops were spotted grabbing lunch at Nobu Malibu in March .. . a rare sighting of the father and son together .
Ray and Kanye' s late mother divorced when Ye was a young child , but the 2 remained amicable over the years.