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| John McCain diagnosed with brain cancer | John McCain diagnosed with brain cancer |
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| US Republican Senator John McCain has been diagnosed with brain cancer and is reviewing treatment options, his office says. | |
| The tumour was discovered during surgery to remove a blood clot from above his left eye, a statement said. | |
| The 80-year-old senator is recovering at home in Arizona. His treatment could include a "combination of chemotherapy and radiation". | |
| A Vietnam veteran, Mr McCain spent more than five years as a prisoner of war. | |
| The six-term senator and 2008 Republican presidential nominee underwent surgery at a clinic in Phoenix last Friday.. | |
| Tissue analysis revealed that a primary brain tumour known as a glioblastoma was associated with the clot. | |
| "The senator's doctors say he is recovering from his surgery 'amazingly well' and his underlying health is excellent," the statement said. | |
| His daughter, Meghan, spoke in a statement of her family's "shock" at the news. | |
| "It won't surprise you to learn that in all of this, the one of us who is most confident and calm is my father," said the 32-year-old's statement. | |
| "So he is meeting this challenge as he has every other. Cancer may afflict him in many ways: but it will not make him surrender. Nothing ever has." |