Reuters
Sen. John McCain will discontinue medical treatment for brain cancer, his family said in a statement on Friday.
The longtime senator and 2008 Republican presidential nominee was diagnosed with an aggressive form of brain cancer, glioblastoma, last year. He is 81 years old.
“With his usual strength of will, he has now chosen to discontinue medical treatment,” his family said in an unsigned statement released through his Senate office. “John has surpassed expectations for his survival. But the progress of disease and the inexorable advance of age render their verdict.”
Glioblastomas are the most common form of primary brain cancers and advance are extremely quickly, according to neurologists. Standard treatment includes surgery and a combination of radiation and chemotherapy. Surgery alone isn’t enough because of the way glioblastomas spread.
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