Symbol copyright Getty Pictures Image caption US Senator John McCain of Arizona has been battling cancer seeing that closing summer season
US Republican Senator John McCain will not be continuing remedy for his brain cancer, his circle of relatives has announced.
Mr McCain, EIGHTY ONE, used to be identified with an competitive type of brain tumour final summer season and have been undergoing remedy because July 2017.
He left Washington to be with his family in Arizona, although he has still been a vocal political figure.
He has, now and then, been a fierce critic of President Donald Trump.
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His circle of relatives mentioned in a press release shared with US media: “Ultimate yr, Senator John McCain shared with American Citizens the inside track our circle of relatives already knew: he were diagnosed with an aggressive glioblastoma, and the analysis used to be critical.”
Symbol copyright Public Area Image caption John McCain on the Naval Academy at Annapolis, circa 1954
In a tweet, Meghan McCain, Mr McCain’s daughter, stated that her circle of relatives “is deeply appreciative of all of the love and generosity” they’ve received over the past year.
His wife, Cindy McCain, also shared the circle of relatives’s commentary on Twitter, pronouncing: “i like my husband with all of my center. God bless everybody who has cared for my husband alongside the journey.”
Republican Senate chief Mitch McConnell stated he was once “very sad” to hear the inside track.
Former Secretary of State John Kerry known as his fellow Vietnam veteran “a courageous guy”.
Mr McCain spent greater than 5 years as a prisoner of war.
The six-term senator and 2008 Republican presidential nominee was once identified after doctors discovered his tumour throughout surgery to remove a blood clot from above his left eye closing July.
Glioblastoma is a particularly aggressive mind most cancers, and will increase in frequency with age, affecting extra men than women.
At the time, his daughter stated that the family reacted with “shock” to the prognosis.
“It would possibly not surprise you to be informed that during all of this, the only folks who’s most confident and calm is my father,” she said on Twitter.
“So he is meeting this challenge as he has any other. Cancer might afflict him in lots of techniques: but it surely is not going to make him surrender. Nothing ever has.”
