May 23, 2008
McCain Medical Records: He "Appears" Cancer-Free
John McCain, the three-time melanoma survivor who turns 72 in August, appears cancer free, according to the AP's examination of 1,173 pages of medical documents spanning 2000 to 2008 that his campaign made available today.
Other McCain health highlights:
He takes cholesterol meds.
He frequently has precancerous skin lesions removed, and in February had an early stage squamous cell carcinoma, an easily cured skin cancer, removed.
He had benign colon growths taken out during a routine colonoscopy in March.
He has degenerative arthritis from war injuries that might require a future joint replacement.
His blood pressure and weight were healthy.
His cholesterol was good but not optimal, forcing him to switch medication.
He was a two-pack-a-day smoker until quitting in 1980.
And this about his bouts with skin cancer:
"He has had four separate spots of melanoma removed from his head and arm on three occasions -- in 1993, 2000 and 2002. Three spots were very early stage, when they were in the uppermost skin surface and easily cut out.
"But one, on his left temple in 2000, was invasive melanoma, what doctors call an ''intermediate risk'' melanoma because of its thickness -- 2.2 millimeters. McCain required delicate surgery to remove and examine lymph nodes that showed no sign of spread."
The 10-year survival rate for intermediate melanoma is 65 percent, according to Dr. Stuart Lessin, director of the melanoma risk-assessment program at Philadelphia's Fox Chase Cancer Center, who was not involved in McCain's care.
Posted at 12:55 PM
Comments
If by "made available" you mean "allowed a select group of reporters to look over for 3 hours without making copies". Good god, theres a window into the kind of secrecy the McCain administration would employ. Welcome to Bush Act III.
Seth | 05.23.08 01:30 PM
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Seth is right. It was a very tightly controlled group of reporters who reviewed those documents.
Morever, you missed one: McCain takes Ambien.
corinne | 05.23.08 02:26 PM
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Who cares if Juan Amnesty Mccain is healthy or not? I am more concerned about his lack of stance against illegal immigration! If you want over 12 million illegals to come in and take our jobs, vote for Amnesty Juan Mccain! I hate Amnesty! I hate Juan Amnesty Mccain! Vote for anyone other than Amnesty!
ThomasB1277 | 05.24.08 03:46 PM
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Who cares if Juan Amnesty Mccain is healthy or not? I am more concerned about his lack of stance against illegal immigration! If you want over 12 million illegals to come in and take our jobs, vote for Amnesty Juan Mccain! I hate Amnesty! I hate Juan Amnesty Mccain! Vote for anyone other than Amnesty!
ThomasB1277 | 05.24.08 03:47 PM
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...and Hillary appears to have a football
sized tumor below her umbilicus. Medical
records...anyone?
hombre | 05.25.08 08:32 PM
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