US Republican Senator John McCain has been diagnosed with brain cancer, days after undergoing a surgery to remove a blood clot from above his left eye.
The 80-year-old Arizona lawmaker’s office made the announcement on Wednesday, quoting a statement by the Mayo Clinic, whose doctors performed the surgery in Phoenix last week.
According to the statement, tests had “revealed that a primary brain tumor known as a glioblastoma was associated with the blood clot.”
“The senator and his family are reviewing further treatment options,” the statement added, noting they may include a combination of chemotherapy and radiation.
Glioblastoma is a particularly aggressive brain tumor affecting adults. It is of the same category of cancer that led to the death of another icon of the US Senate, Ted Kennedy, who died in 2009 at age 77.
This is not McCain’s first bout with cancer. Doctors removed several malignant melanomas on McCain’s skin in the 1990s and 2000s,…