McCain to stop treatment for brain cancer

AP: John McCain will no longer receive treatment for brain cancer, the Arizona senator’s family said in a statement on Friday.

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, the 2008 Republican nominee for president, was diagnosed with glioblastoma, an aggressive form of cancer, last year. He has been absent from the Senate.

Tributes for John McCain started pouring after the news that he’s stopped medical treatment for brain cancer.

Says his wife, Cindy, in a tweet: “I love my husband with all of my heart. God bless everyone who has cared for my husband along this journey.”

Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey calls McCain “an American hero” who always put his country before himself and whose life has been guided by a “spirit of service and civility” that is a model for Americans regardless of political affiliation.

And Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says the McCain family is “in our prayers at this incredibly difficult hour.”

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