Posted on 03/13/2018 11:44:34 PM PDT by fluorescence
PHOENIX – Meghan McCain said Tuesday that her father, Sen. John McCain, was doing well as he continues to undergo chemotherapy treatment for brain cancer in Arizona.
“He’s good, he’s getting a lot of physical therapy and treatment,” McCain told KTAR News 92.3 FM’s Mac & Gaydos.
“As everyone knows especially with this cancer, you have to take it scan by scan but he is doing really good, much better than I think people anticipated.”
Sen. McCain was diagnosed with glioblastoma, a rare and aggressive form of brain cancer, last summer.
The tumor was removed, but in November doctors discovered a second tumor in the same place. The discovery came just weeks after McCain tore his Achilles tendon.
The senator returned home in December after he was diagnosed with a viral infection, and has remained at his family’s ranch in Sedona to undergo chemotherapy and physical therapy.
Once diagnosed, the typical survival period for glioblastoma is 12 to 15 months, though a small percentage live longer than five years. But according to his daughter, the 81-year-old has made strides in his recovery.
“Anyone who has loved ones or has gone through it knows how horrific chemo is and he’s working through the side effects of it,” she said. “He’s doing very well and I feel very lucky that he is doing so well.”
McCain originally expected to return to Senate in January, but was unable to do so.
As he continues to undergo treatment, his daughter said there was no determined timetable for his return to Washington.
But when asked, she said she was optimistic about his return happening as soon as the upcoming summer.
“I wish I had an exact date but I just don’t,” she said. “I am very cautiously optimistic about the summer, yes.”
Rumors surfaced online Thursday that the senator was prepared to step down from Senate, but his wife, Cindy McCain, quickly refuted the report on her Twitter page.
“Contrary to popular belief [John McCain] is doing fine and has no intention of resigning,” she tweeted, adding the hashtag “crackpots.”
The rumor had been spread by two Twitter accounts that did not link to any articles or reputable news sources.
A website called True Pundit also reported the rumor, though the site was labeled as “simply not trustworthy” by MediaBiasFactCheck.com.
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If he really loved America he would step down gracefully, but he can’t keep his ego under control.... being a senator is all he cares about..it feeds his ego and his personality shows it.
Satan...please take John home.
Hey Juan,
Eat pooh and die.
I have seen the results of severe chemotherapy (wife w stage 3 cancer) and would never willingly undergo it myself, especially if I was 81 years old.
I would put my worldly and heavenly accounts in order and thank God for the chance to do so.
But no chemo.
#MeToo
If you “recover” from this, you never really had it.
Might be better to die as a senator, than live to be exposed as a seditionist traitor.
On age alone, even though 80 doesn't seem as old as it used to with me pushing 60, you have to wonder how voters think that someone the same age as their old Uncle Bert or Aunt Marie should be deciding on what the country does. And for anyone who thinks that it's their staffs doing the deciding not them, all the more reason not to vote for them.
But there's another element that would smack voters in the face if they actually took any real time to think about whom they're voting for: Most people work to retire as early as they can when they are assured of enough money for the rest of their lives yet those same people as voters continue to vote for people in their 70s and 80s who easily could afford to retire, but choose to hang around election after election. When you make that connection even after you factor in that they could love what they're doing and the obligatory blather about public service, you realize that there is something holding them in DC whether it's power, prestige, hookers, adulation, bribes, kickbacks, or all of the above. Whatever it is, it's definitely not for the benefit of the people back home and the country at large. Once you see that, they have to go.
It is all very suspicious.
Hey Meghan, the Democrats want him to return more than Conservatives do.
I would say typically a person would be dead, BUT he has good genes. His MOTHER is 106 and still alive and doing well. McCain is not a normal patient. He may even have genes that fight this type of cancer that others simply don’t have.
HIS MOTHER IS 106 YEARS OLD AND STILL LIVING!!!!!!! The total of 81 year olds that have their mother are probably not enough to count both hands.
I lost a friend to glioblastoma. The mean survival rate is around 14 months. The diagnosis is a virtual death sentence.
Well, she is a liar, so she lies.
“There’s no way McCain is going back to the Senate.
Anyone who’s familiar with the term Chemo-Brain knows why.”
Seems he had chemo-brain before they administered chemo.Safe trip, John. I hear they don’t have undocumented immigrants in heaven.Heaven has a gate and a fence. Everyone up there has their papers.
My father died of glioblastoma (He passed 7 weeks after driving himself to the doctor’s office). In his case, the doctors stated that Chemotherapy would be of no use. Instead, they provided radiation treatments which did absolutely nothing. I wonder why in the hell they are providing Chemo to McCain? I also need to remind myself that it is hard to kill evil, which might explain why McCain is still alive.
Once diagnosed, the typical survival period for glioblastoma is 12 to 15 months
Then why in the hell are we wasting Millions of TAXPAYER Dollars to prolong his agony, give him the damn pill already.
“-—— give him the damn pill already.”
I certainly hope that you are kidding.
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I am just over 8 yrs clean and I swear chemo doesn’t just give you chemo brain but also kills brain cells. I still have times when I just can’t remember a word I’ve used all my life. But yeah, I definitely remember the fog.
My best friend died from that horrible disease. He survived almost five years, thanks to superb care from a team at Vanderbilt. My friend was also a man of great faith and kept himself in superb physical condition. His treatment regimen included both chemo and radiation; in the end, the radiation began causing seizures and other side-effects that ultimately took his life.
Glioblastoma kills at least 3-4,000 Americans each year. Researchers need more money; it’s one of the deadliest forms of cancer and progress has been agonizingly slow.
My deepest condolences on the loss of your father.
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