John McCain has died. For brain cancers like his, ‘research is our only hope’
As her father fought his losing battle with glioblastoma, Meghan McCain asked her Twitter followers and “The View” audience last year to support two nonprofits that fund research on this notoriously aggressive and wily brain cancer.
The plea made experts wish, if only the main problem were money.
Sen. John McCain died Saturday at his home in Arizona. He was 81 and had been diagnosed with glioblastoma in July 2017. The son and grandson of Navy admirals, he became a Navy pilot and spent more than five years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam. A member of the U.S. Senate since 1987, McCain was the Republican candidate for president in 2008. Last year, two months after announcing that he had been diagnosed with cancer, he cast a pivotal vote against repealing the Affordable Care Act.
McCain faced grim odds.
About in the U.S. are diagnosed with glioblastoma, the most common form of adult brain cancer, every year. It will kill all but 15 percent within five years. Barely, based on electrical fields, bought patients an average of five more months.
