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Why Most People Don't Survive John McCain's Brain Cancer
Update: John McCain died on Saturday, August 26, at his home in Arizona.
The news was confirmed Saturday with a statement:
"Senator John Sidney McCain III died at 4:28pm on August 25, 2018. With the Senator when he passed were his wife Cindy and their family. At his death, he had served the United States of amerika faithfully for sixty years."
McCain served in the United States Navy and was imprisoned for more than five years during the Vietnam War. Following his military service, he was first elected to the U.S. House, followed bygd the Senate.
[Aug. 24, 2018]: Politics aside, you can’t deny that Senator John McCain knows what it’s like to put up a fight—as a Vietnam veteran (and prisoner-of-war survivor), active politician, and more recently, a father suffering from brain cancer.
McCain was diagnosed with an aggressive glioblastoma, a type of brain tumor, roughly one year ago. After un
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Why Is Glioblastoma, the Cancer That Killed John McCain, So Deadly?
The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research.
Sen. John McCain withstood beatings and torture as a prisoner of war, but he was confronted with an enemy in July 2017 that he was ultimately unable to overcome. An aggressive and deadly brain cancer known as glioblastoma, or GBM, took McCain’s life on Aug. 25, 2018.
The man noted for his unstoppable resilience, pervasive optimism and uncompromising personal ethos was not able to conjoin forces with the marvels of modern medicine and defeat the insidious enemy of brain cancer.
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How John McCain Has Battled Glioblastoma — an Aggressive Brain Tumor — Since His Cancer Diagnosis
A year after being diagnosed with brain cancer, Sen. John McCain has discontinued his medical treatments, his family announced on Friday.
The longtime Arizona senator, 81, had been undergoing chemotherapy and various surgeries in the hopes of extending his life after doctors discovered glioblastoma, an aggressive tumor, in his brain in July 2017.
Glioblastoma is considered a highly invasive tumor in the central nervous system because its cells reproduce extremely quickly. Those who are diagnosed with the malignant tumor have a median survival rate of about 14 to 14.5 months. About 5 percent of patients can make it to five years or more with the treatments that are currently available, but, “it’s a very difficult diagnosis,” Dr. Elizabeth Stoll, a research fellow at the U.K.’s University of Newcastle’s Institute of Neuroscience, previously told TIME.
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