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    John McCain Has Brain Cancer, Senator's Office Says

    WASHINGTON — Senator John McCain, the 2008 Republican presidential nominee known for his independent streak over more than three decades representing Arizona in the Senate, has brain cancer, his office disclosed Wednesday night in a statement from the Mayo Clinic.

    Mr. McCain, 80, has a glioblastoma, one of the most common but also one of the most malignant brain tumors. It can be treated with chemotherapy and radiation, but medical experts said it almost always grows back.

    Mr. McCain's office said he was recuperating at his home in Arizona and "appreciates the outpouring of support he has received over the last few days."

    His office said Mr. McCain would decide when to return to the Senate as he consults with his medical advisers.

    Medical experts said the type of tumor Mr. McCain has is particularly aggressive. The median survival of a glioblastoma is about 16 months, said Eugene S. Flamm, chairman of neurosurgery at Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx. Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts died in 2009 from the same kind of aggressive brain tumor.

    Mr. McCain learned of the tumor after undergoing surgery late last week at the Mayo Clinic Hospital in Phoenix to remove a blood clot above his left eye.

    Mr. McCain, the son of a prominent family dedicated to military service, has been in American life since the 1960s. He was the public face of the mistreatment of American prisoners at the North Vietnamese camp known as the Hanoi Hilton, where as a Navy pilot he was confined and tortured for over five years. Decades later, he was the happy-go-lucky captain of the Straight Talk Express, the campaign bus where he cultivated his image as a candid political maverick in his failed 2000 presidential run. He was elected to a sixth Senate term this past November.

    Four presidents — Donald J. Trump, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton and the elder George Bush — issued heartfelt statements wishing Mr. McCain a speedy recovery late Wednesday.

    "Senator John McCain has always been a fighter," Mr. Trump said.

    Mr. Obama, who defeated Mr. McCain in the 2008 election, called the senator a "hero & one of the bravest fighters I've ever known."

    "Cancer doesn't know what it's up against," Mr. Obama tweeted. "Give it hell, John."

    The diagnosis shook the Senate, where Mr. McCain is a popular figure despite his occasionally heated disputes with colleagues in both parties. His illness had implications this week for the health care debate, causing Senator Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky and the majority leader, to postpone a floor fight until Mr. McCain returned to Washington.

    On Wednesday night, about a dozen lawmakers gathered in the Dirksen Senate Office Building to explore a health care compromise asked Senator James Lankford, an Oklahoma Republican who is a Baptist minister, to lead them in prayer for their colleague.

    "It was very emotional," said Senator John Hoeven, Republican of North Dakota, who was present. He said finding a solution to the health care impasse was "more challenging without him."

    Mr. McConnell called Mr. McCain a hero to both Senate Republicans and the nation at large.

    "He has never shied from a fight, and I know that he will face this challenge with the same extraordinary courage that has characterized his life," Mr. McConnell said Wednesday night. "We all look forward to seeing this American hero again soon."

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    https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/19/u...in-cancer.html

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