Senator John McCain has been diagnosed with brain cancer following surgery to remove a blood clot, a statement from his office said on July 19. ( SAUL LOEB / AFP/Getty Images )WASHINGTON—Arizona Sen. John McCain has been diagnosed with a brain tumour after doctors removed a blood clot above his left eye last week, his office said in a statement Wednesday. “On Friday, July 14, Sen. John McCain underwent a procedure to remove a blood clot from above his left eye at Mayo Clinic Hospital in Phoenix. Subsequent tissue pathology revealed that a primary brain tumour known as a glioblastoma was associated with the blood clot,” his office said in a statement. About 20,000 people in the U.S. each year are diagnosed with a glioblastoma, a particularly aggressive type of brain tumour.

Source: thestar July 20, 2017 00:26 UTC