Cancer Survivor McCain has another Growth Removed from Face

[ultraist]

Run time: 00:59 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnPwQXhJ9Vw   Posted on YouTube: July 28, 2008 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: July 28, 2008 By DU Member: ultraist Views on DU: 778

 
John McCain, who has had numerous bouts with melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, had another growth removed from his face today.

Whether or not this latest growth turns out to be malignant, it certainly calls into question McCain's general health status and whether or not he is fit to be President.

The NYT reported on McCain's cancer history back in March, when McCain was still refusing to turn over his medical records to the public.

"Mr. McCain has had four melanomas.

In 1993, he waited more than six months before seeking care after a Navy doctor recommended that he consult a dermatologist for a lesion on his left shoulder that turned out to be his first melanoma. It was excised and has not recurred.

Pathology tests showed that the two other melanomas - detected on his upper left arm in 2000 and on his nose in 2002 - were of the least dangerous kind, in situ. In that type the malignant cells are confined to the outer layer of skin.

The most serious melanoma was spotted on his temple in 2000 by the attending physician at the United States Capitol after it had escaped the eye of Mr. McCain's personal physician at Mayo Clinic Scottsdale. (The Capitol physician also spotted another melanoma that was in situ.)

The melanoma on Mr. McCain's left temple was 2 centimeters in diameter and 0.22 centimeters deep, and was fully excised with wide margins, 2 centimeters in each direction, his campaign staff said." http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/09/us/politics/09mccain.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1

If elected, McCain would be the oldest siting President in U.S. history.

McCain still has not released his full medical records to the public but released partial records for select reporters to review.

[eleny]

1. 2 centimeters = 0.8 inch

So it was almost an inch wide and .10 inche deep.

Excised 2 centimeters each side of it means they took away 2.4 inches in diameter. That's quite a bit if my centimeters to inches calc is about right.

[ultraist]

3. Yes, this is very serious

They are awaiting biopsy results which I expect would take a day or two.

I really don't think they would have McCain having to report he is having a biopsy and being seen on the campaign trail with a bandage on his face, if they weren't pretty concerned it could be malignant. Not good, at all for McCain, esp considering he's had melanoma, four times already.

[tekisui]

2. There went his "good side".

[barack the house]

4. I'm not getting it 7 years of a GOP nightmare, their candidate is literally falling to bits why ->>

Why is there even a contest. Surely even stupid people can see McCain is no opposition.

[Crowman1979]

5. Because McCain is a ZOMBIE!!!

It was too late to exhume Reagan from the grave, so they revived McCain with the blood of missing children and inserter a wireless teleprompter probe into his brain. I'm just kidding, although I do believe that McCain must be missing a heart since 197? something.