[NEWS] Senator John McCain has brain cancer

[SeventhSandwich]

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/19/us/politics/john-mccain-brain-cancer.html?mcubz=0

This is truly a tragedy. I disagree with much of his politics, but he's indisputably an American hero. Spent months in a Vietnamese prison camp, withstanding torture, even though he could have had the option to walk over the line, being related to a public official.

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[Red Spy]

The median survival is about 16 months, he said. Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts, died in 2009 from this kind of aggressive brain tumor, which almost always grows back even after chemotherapy and radiation.

so is this there something wrong with the senate chamber

[Tactical Nuke]

cue the SJWs cackling in their mudpits

[Pecon]

so is this there something wrong with the senate chamber

He's 80 years old, he was around for a time when the causes of cancer were not well known yet. When he was a child he could have encountered an x-ray machine in a shoe store, among other places. At the time it wasn't known that radiation causes cancer, so x-ray machines were used quite a bit and weren't designed to use short bursts of x-ray like current machines use to minimize radiation exposure.

In other words, he probably was exposed to lots of cancer causing things while he was growing up. It's really not surprising when people around that age get cancer.

[beachbum111111]

cue the SJWs cackling in their mudpits

Nah they like him because he didn't like Annoying Orange

[Red Spy]

He's 80 years old, he was around for a time when the causes of cancer were not well known yet. When he was a child he could have encountered an x-ray machine in a shoe store, among other places. At the time it wasn't known that radiation causes cancer, so x-ray machines were used quite a bit and weren't designed to use short bursts of x-ray like current machines use to minimize radiation exposure.

In other words, he probably was exposed to lots of cancer causing things while he was growing up. It's really not surprising when people around that age get cancer.

did you not pick up that i was joking or

[beachbum111111]

Of course McCain was exposed to cancer causing things he is part of the Republican party after all

[Tactical Nuke]

Of course McCain was exposed to cancer causing things he is part of the Republican party after all

I think it was more the toxicity of the Democratic Party that got him

[Pecon]

did you not pick up that i was joking or

Jokes are funny.

[Trogtor]

brain pain mccain

[King Tøny]

My friend has glioblastoma and there is no cure.

Life expectancy is 16 months with treatment.

[(or nal?)]

Truly a tragedy in politics

[Karl Marx]

I think it was more the toxicity of the Democratic Party that got him

[Dawes]

did you just call him a cheeseball

ITT: Brain cancer is a bitch. hoping things get better for the guy

[Tactical Nuke]

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you literally came back as karl marx kimon I don't think you have the right to call me a cornball