He's a Fighter
John McCain is being urged to persevere based on strength of character, a quintessentially American approach to thinking about health.
by James Hamblin
Jul 20, 2017
2 minutes
Eighty-year-old Senator John McCain has been diagnosed with glioblastoma, according to doctors at the Mayo Clinic in Arizona. The cancer is being described in news reports as it is in medical texts, as an “aggressive brain tumor.”
The weight of that diagnosis hasn’t registered in all quarters. For the average man his age, the tumor means the odds of surviving five years are in the single digits. There are from past and present American leaders has been that McCain is no . He is a .
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