Republican Senator John McCain suffering from Brain Tumour: Doctors

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 Arizona Senator John McCain, the 2008 Republican presidential nominee with a well-known maverick streak that often vexed his GOP colleagues, has been diagnosed with a brain tumour, his office said in a statement Wednesday. 

 The 80-year-old lawmaker has glioblastoma, an aggressive cancer, according to doctors at the Mayo Clinic in Phoenix where McCain had a blood clot removed from above his left eye last Friday. 

The senator and his family are reviewing further treatment, including a combination of chemotherapy and radiation. “On Friday, July 14, Senator 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 tumour known as a glioblastoma was associated with the blood clot,” his office said in a statement.
The American Cancer Society puts the five-year survival rate for patients over 55 at about 4 per cent. The tumour digs tentacle-like roots into normal brain tissue. Patients fare best when surgeons can cut out all the visible tumour, which happened with McCain’s tumour, according to his office. 

His absence had forced Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., to delay action on health care legislation. McCain had been slated to oversee debate of the sweeping defense policy bill in the coming weeks.

 President Donald Trump and McCain’s Senate colleagues, Republicans and Democrats, offered their prayers and support. “Senator John McCain has always been a fighter. Melania and I send our thoughts and prayers to Senator McCain, Cindy, and their entire family. Get well soon,” Trump said.

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