{"id":180100,"date":"2017-07-19T21:02:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-20T02:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/07\/19\/not-a-good-prognosis\/"},"modified":"2017-07-19T21:02:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-20T02:02:00","slug":"not-a-good-prognosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/07\/19\/not-a-good-prognosis\/","title":{"rendered":"Not a Good Prognosis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Doctors  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/powerpost\/john-mccain-republican-senator-from-arizona-has-a-brain-tumor\/2017\/07\/19\/3331c5fa-6cdf-11e7-b9e2-2056e768a7e5_story.html\">found a glioblastoma when they operated on him for a blood clot in his brain<\/a>.<\/div>\n<p>This is a very aggressive cancer, and typical survival rate after diagnosis is around a year and a half:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) has been diagnosed with a brain tumor, his office said Wednesday, throwing into doubt when and if he will return to Washington to resume his duties in the Senate. <\/p>\n<p>The Mayo Clinic said doctors diagnosed a tumor called a glioblastoma after surgery to remove a blood clot above McCain\u2019s left eye last week. The senator and his family are considering treatment options, including a combination of chemotherapy and radiation, according to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>McCain, 80, has been away from the Senate this week, recovering from the surgery and undergoing tests. His office issued a statement describing him \u201cin good spirits\u201d and noting that his doctors say his underlying health is excellent \u2014 but not indicating when he will return to the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>Glioblastoma is an aggressive type of brain cancer, and the prognosis for this kind of cancer is generally poor. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) survived less than 15 months after his was found in 2008. McCain\u2019s doctors said the \u201ctissue of concern\u201d was removed during the blood-clot procedure.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In the best case, McCain is unlikely to be back in Washington for a while, which would make things even worse for Mitch McConnell in his attempts to corral votes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doctors found a glioblastoma when they operated on him for a blood clot in his brain. This is a very aggressive cancer, and typical survival rate after diagnosis is around a year and a half: Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) has been diagnosed with a brain tumor, his office said Wednesday, throwing into doubt when and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[447,440],"class_list":["post-180100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-congress","tag-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180100"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}