According to an Iran Press report, after a year of battling aggressive brain cancer, Senator John McCain (R-Arizona) is discontinuing further medical treatment, according to his family.
The 2008 Republican nominee for president, who is 81, was diagnosed with glioblastoma, an aggressive form of cancer, last year. He has been absent from the Senate since December 2017.
The McCain family statement said: “The progress of disease and the inexorable advance of age render their verdict. With his usual strength of will, he has now chosen to discontinue medical treatment.”
McCain, who is just days shy of his 82nd birthday, left Washington in December 2017 and has not been back since. He chose not to resign from the Senate and have the governor of Arizona appoint a replacement.
Though absent from the Senate floor, McCain has continued to co-sponsor bills and initiatives. At the beginning of August, he joined Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-New Hampshire) Bob Menendez (D-New Jersey), Ben Cardin (D-Maryland), Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) and Cory Gardner (R-Colorado) in sponsoring an anti-Russian sanctions bill, known officially as Defending American Security from Kremlin Aggression Act of 2018".
( RT contributed to this report )
