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| Senator John McCain discontinuing cancer treatment | Senator John McCain discontinuing cancer treatment |
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| US Republican Senator John McCain will no longer be continuing treatment for his brain cancer, his family has announced. | US Republican Senator John McCain will no longer be continuing treatment for his brain cancer, his family has announced. |
| Mr McCain, 81, was diagnosed with an aggressive form of brain tumour last summer and had been undergoing treatment since July 2017. | |
| He left Washington to be with his family in Arizona, though he has still been a vocal political figure. | He left Washington to be with his family in Arizona, though he has still been a vocal political figure. |
| He has, at times, been a fierce critic of President Donald Trump. | He has, at times, been a fierce critic of President Donald Trump. |
| His family said in a statement shared with US media: "Last year, Senator John McCain shared with Americans the news our family already knew: he had been diagnosed with an aggressive glioblastoma, and the prognosis was serious." | His family said in a statement shared with US media: "Last year, Senator John McCain shared with Americans the news our family already knew: he had been diagnosed with an aggressive glioblastoma, and the prognosis was serious." |
| "In the year since, John has surpassed expectations for his survival. But the progress of disease and the inexorable advance of age render their verdict. | "In the year since, John has surpassed expectations for his survival. But the progress of disease and the inexorable advance of age render their verdict. |
| "With his usual strength of will, he has chosen to discontinue medical treatment." | "With his usual strength of will, he has chosen to discontinue medical treatment." |
| In a tweet, Meghan McCain, Mr McCain's daughter, said that her family "is deeply appreciative of all the love and generosity" they have received over the past year. | In a tweet, Meghan McCain, Mr McCain's daughter, said that her family "is deeply appreciative of all the love and generosity" they have received over the past year. |
| His wife, Cindy McCain, also shared the family's statement on Twitter, saying: "I love my husband with all of my heart. God bless everyone who has cared for my husband along the journey." | His wife, Cindy McCain, also shared the family's statement on Twitter, saying: "I love my husband with all of my heart. God bless everyone who has cared for my husband along the journey." |
| Mr McCain represented his state in the Senate and House for 35 years and has been a strong voice within the Republican party. | |
| Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell said he was "very sad" to hear the news. | Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell said he was "very sad" to hear the news. |
| House Speaker Paul Ryan said Mr McCain "personifies service to our country". | |
| Fellow Republican senator and former presidential candidate Mitt Romney echoed those sentiments, saying "no man this century better exemplifies honour, patriotism, service, sacrifice and country first". | |
| Former Secretary of State John Kerry called his fellow Vietnam veteran "a brave man". | |
| Mr McCain spent more than five years as a prisoner of war. | |
| The six-term senator and 2008 Republican presidential nominee was diagnosed after doctors discovered his tumour during surgery to remove a blood clot from above his left eye last July. | |
| He left Capitol Hill last December to begin treatment at the Mayo Clinic in Phoenix, Arizona. In April, he underwent surgery again for an intestinal infection. | |
| Mr McCain has been recovering from treatments and receiving physical therapy from a team of caregivers at his home near Sedona since leaving Washington. | |
| Glioblastoma is a particularly aggressive brain cancer, and increases in frequency with age, affecting more men than women. | |
| At the time, his daughter said that the family reacted with "shock" to the diagnosis. | |
| "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," she said on Twitter. | |
| "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." |