Republican Senator John McCain of Arizona has been diagnosed with brain cancer after checking into a hospital for a blood clot near his left eye. Doctors discovered a glioblastoma, a malignant brain tumor.
“The Senator and his family are reviewing further treatment options with his Mayo Clinic care team,” a Wednesday evening statement from McCain’s office read. Chemotherapy and radiation may be the next step, according to the statement.
Doctors said McCain recovered from surgery “amazingly well,” according to McCain’s office, and they added that McCain’s “underlying health is excellent.”
McCain’s daughter, Meghan McCain, confirmed the news, which she called a “shock” in a statement released Wednesday evening.
“It is an experience familiar to us, given my father’s previous battle with cancer,” she said, adding, “It won’t surprise you to learn that in all this, the one of us who is most confident and calm is my father.”
McCain’s colleagues in Congress tweeted their support and prayers.
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