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John McCain has deadly Brain Cancer

Postby A Combustible Lemon » Thu Jul 20, 2017 3:53 pm

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/jul/19/john-mccain-diagnosed-brain-cancer/

John McCain got diagnosed with Brain Cancer. it's a glioblastoma. Life expectancy even with treatment is 12-14 months.

Cancer is fucking terrible and hopefully he'll outlast the mean.
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Re: John McCain has deadly Brain Cancer

Postby IamNotCreepy » Thu Jul 20, 2017 4:00 pm

I am hoping that this changes his outlook on things and will change his priorities.

Maybe the idea of dying soon will have him think about his legacy and ensuring that he is leaving the country in a good place. I would love it if this broke him out of the habit of siding with Republicans out of party loyalty and freed him up to get shit done.

Maybe this would be the thing that pushes him over the edge to finally take a hard stance against Trump.
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Re: John McCain has deadly Brain Cancer

Postby reallifegirl » Thu Jul 20, 2017 4:29 pm

As much as I think it would be great to have something to rally Republicans into not fucking over healthcare, I feel like an 80 year-old man with terminal cancer is not going to be able to lead the charge to change things, or even do much of anything at all.

Cancer is horrifically draining for even a normally healthy person, and this is aggressive cancer in an already elderly man. All I think we can hope for is that he gets the best care he can and dies relatively peacefully.
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Re: John McCain has deadly Brain Cancer

Postby Marcuse » Thu Jul 20, 2017 4:29 pm

That's really sad, regardless of his politics, this sucks.
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Re: John McCain has deadly Brain Cancer

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Re: John McCain has deadly Brain Cancer

Postby A Combustible Lemon » Thu Jul 20, 2017 5:08 pm

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Re: John McCain has deadly Brain Cancer

Postby Absentia » Thu Jul 20, 2017 5:33 pm

Fuck, one of the few major Republicans I actually respect. He deserves better.
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Re: John McCain has deadly Brain Cancer

Postby Tesseracts » Thu Jul 20, 2017 6:35 pm

McCain is one of the last politicians still practicing civil disagreement.
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Re: John McCain has deadly Brain Cancer

Postby Krashlia » Thu Jul 20, 2017 8:21 pm

Much like Methuselah before the flood this guy.
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Re: John McCain has deadly Brain Cancer

Postby Learned Nand » Thu Jul 20, 2017 9:14 pm

ghijkmnop wrote:Gotta love that Congressional Health Insurance we Americans pay for.

Congressmen receive their private insurance plans through ACA exchanges, with a subsidy from the Federal government.
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Re: John McCain has deadly Brain Cancer

Postby iMURDAu » Thu Jul 20, 2017 9:34 pm

I'm just going to point out that he got terminal cancer after the 2016 election.
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Re: John McCain has deadly Brain Cancer

Postby ghijkmnop » Thu Jul 20, 2017 11:54 pm

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Re: John McCain has deadly Brain Cancer

Postby blehblah » Fri Jul 21, 2017 12:06 am

One tough human being, that McCain.

From reports, they were able to remove much of the tumor which was visible, but it's a nasty, aggressive, relentless, little shit.

The same type of cancer was in the news up here not long ago:

http://nationalpost.com/g00/news/canada ... gle.com%2F

I wouldn't have survived even a small fraction of what McCain has. He'll smack it about with experience, and I hope he gives it a good, long, fight. Unfortunately, the prognosis isn't in his favour...
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Re: John McCain has deadly Brain Cancer

Postby Deathclaw_Puncher » Fri Jul 21, 2017 12:11 am

Hey, if Jimmy Carter can survive a form of brain cancer that has only a 0.25% survival rate at the age of 92, I'm sure McCain can pull through at 80.
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Re: John McCain has deadly Brain Cancer

Postby Anglerphobe » Fri Jul 21, 2017 12:28 am

Anyone can survive something that has a less than 100% likelihood of killing them.
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