• March 29, 2024

McCain Undergoes Surgery To Remove Aggressive Tumor. DRs Deliver News, Family Devastated

 McCain Undergoes Surgery To Remove Aggressive Tumor. DRs Deliver News, Family Devastated

Senator John McCain has been diagnosed with a brain tumour after doctors removed a blood clot above his left eye last week, his office said on Wednesday.

The news was met with shock in Washington and triggered an outpouring of support for the much-respected Republican lawmaker.

“Senator John McCain has always been a fighter,” President Donald Trump said. “Melania and I send our thoughts and prayers to Senator McCain, Cindy, and their entire family. Get well soon.”

The 80-year-old Republican has glioblastoma, an aggressive cancer, according to doctors at the Mayo Clinic in Phoenix. The senator and his family are reviewing further treatment, including a combination of chemotherapy and radiation.

“On Friday, July 14, Sen. John McCain underwent a procedure to remove a blood clot from above his left eye at Mayo Clinic Hospital in Phoenix. Subsequent tissue pathology revealed that a primary brain tumor known as a glioblastoma was associated with the blood clot,” his office said in a statement.

His daughter Meghan McCain said the family were in “shock” at the news as she released a touching tribute to her father.

“It won’t surprise you to learn that in all this, the one of us who is most confident and calm in my father,” she said.

“He is the toughest person I know. The cruelest enemy could not break him. The aggressions of political life could not bend him. So he is meeting this challenge as he has every other. Cancer may afflict him in many ways: but it will not make him surrender. Nothing ever has.

“He is a warrior at dusk, one of the greatest Americans of our age, and the worthy heir to his father’s and grandfather’s name. But to me he is something more. He is my strength, my example, my refuge, my confidante, my teacher, my rock, my hero – my Dad.”

The Arizona senator and chairman of the Armed Services Committee had been recovering at his Arizona home. His absence had forced Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to delay action on health care legislation.

Article Sources: Liftable

Social Media Source: Twitter/Meghan McCain

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