{"id":44688,"date":"2017-09-26T09:08:44","date_gmt":"2017-09-26T09:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=44688"},"modified":"2017-09-26T09:08:44","modified_gmt":"2017-09-26T09:08:44","slug":"mccain-calls-brain-cancer-prognosis-very-poor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/health\/mccain-calls-brain-cancer-prognosis-very-poor.html","title":{"rendered":"McCain calls brain cancer prognosis very poor"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">McCain calls brain cancer prognosis very poor<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">McCain calls brain cancer prognosis very poor:- U.S. Sen. John McCain says doctors have given him a &#8220;very, very serious prognosis&#8221; as he battles brain cancer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">&#8220;Some say 3 percent, some say 14 percent,&#8221; McCain said in an interview with CBS&#8217; &#8220;60 minutes&#8221; on Sunday, of his chances for survival.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">McCain underwent surgery in July for a brain tumor that was later found to be a form of glioblastoma, the same type of cancer that took the life of his former Senate colleague Edward M. Kennedy in 2009. McCain said that he thinks about Kennedy a lot. He says Kennedy continued to work despite the diagnosis and &#8220;never gave up because he loved the engagement.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Kennedy, McCain said on CBS, &#8220;stayed at his job, kept working, kept going, even when he was in a wheelchair.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">The senator, who&#8217;s been called a maverick for his refusal to vote for the Republican&#8217;s health care bills, is trying to do the same.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">&#8220;I am more energetic and more engaged as a result of this because I know that I need to do everything I can to serve this country while I can,&#8221; McCain, who starts his days with chemotherapy and radiation, said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">McCain said on CBS he has &#8220;feelings sometimes of fear of what happens,&#8221; but counters &#8220;as soon as I get that, I say, &#8216;Wait a minute. You&#8217;ve been around a long time old man. You&#8217;ve had a great life.'&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">He concluded: &#8220;I want when I leave that the ceremony is at the naval academy and we just have a couple of people that stand up and say &#8216;This guy, he served his country.'&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 8pt\">Source:-\u00a0https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2017\/09\/25\/mccain-calls-brain-cancer-prognosis-very-poor.html<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/health\/mccain-calls-brain-cancer-prognosis-very-poor.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McCain calls brain cancer prognosis very poor McCain calls brain cancer prognosis very poor:- U.S. Sen. John McCain says doctors have given him a &#8220;very, very serious prognosis&#8221; as he battles brain cancer. &#8220;Some say 3 percent, some say 14 percent,&#8221; McCain said in an interview with CBS&#8217; &#8220;60 minutes&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[64204],"class_list":["post-44688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","tag-mccain-calls-brain-cancer-prognosis-very-poor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}