Washington – U.S. Senator John McCain has a brain tumor and is reviewing treatment options that may include a combination of chemotherapy and radiation, his office said on Wednesday.
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The six-term Republican senator and 2008 presidential nominee, who is 80, has been recovering at home in Arizona since undergoing surgery at the Mayo Clinic in Phoenix last Friday to remove a blood clot from above his left eye.
Tissue analysis since that procedure revealed that a primary brain tumor known as a glioblastoma was associated with the clot, his office said.
McCain’s doctors said he was recovering from his surgery “amazingly well” and that his underlying health was excellent.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell called McCain, the chairman of the Armed Services Committee, and a prisoner of war during the Vietnam War, a hero and said he looked forward to having him back in Washington.
“We all look forward to seeing this American hero again soon,” McConnell said in a statement.
Very sad. We have lost most of our World War II generation, now the Vietnam guys are starting to fade away.
It should also be noted that when President Obama was first elected (McCain ran against him), he would come to the White House to counsel Obama and help him ease into the office. He said everyone in America wanted him to succeed. Not many people would have the grace to do that.
Very sad! Maybe he should call Pres. Carter for some advice.
Nebech, so horrible to see people suffer like this.
“I don’t like people that were captured”
~ ~ Don The Con TRump
I think he would have made a great President.
To #7 - You wrote that Bush prayed for our troops (in Iraq). However, he was the one who sent them to their deaths, because of phony intelligence that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. Even his Father, George H.W. Bush, was against the invasion of Iraq in 2003, as was General Brent Scowcroft and Gen. Colin Powell. It was a disaster, from the beginning. When Bush saw what a mess it was, he should have pulled out in 2004. Regarding Obama’s pulling out in Dec., 2011, that decision was made by the Iraqi government, and Bush #41 , in 2008.