Arizona Sen. John McCain has been diagnosed with brain cancer, his office confirmed Wednesday night.
According to CNN, the 80-year-old Republican underwent a procedure last week to remove a blood clot above his left eye. Subsequent tissue pathology revealed that a primary brain tumor known as a glioblastoma was also present and associated with the blood clot.
“The Senator and his family are reviewing further treatment options with his Mayo Clinic care team,” The Mayo Clinic Hospital in Phoenix said in a statement. “Treatment options may include a combination of chemotherapy and radiation.”
The senator’s office said he is recovering from the surgery “amazingly well.” CNN reports he is now back at his Arizona home and is going over treatment options with his family.
Shortly after the news broke, McCain’s daughter Meghan McCain posted a lengthy message on Twitter.
“It won’t surprise you to learn that in all this, the one of us who is the most confident and calm is my father,” she wrote. “He is the toughest person I know. The cruelest enemy could not break him. The aggressions of political life could not bend him. So he is meeting the challenge as he has every other. Cancer may afflict him in many ways: but it will not make him surrender. Nothing ever has.”
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