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Surviving Glioblastoma: McCain's Brain Tumor Is an Aggressive Type of Cancer

Sen. John McCain, the 2008 Republican presidential candidate, was diagnosed with glioblastoma multiforme. This is a famously aggressive form of brain cancer and generally returns quickly after the completion of chemotherapy and radiation treatments. Despite a decades-long war on cancer, and the "most advanced" treatments known to 21st century oncologists, people who develop this fast-growing cancer are generally given a prognosis of about 15 months to live — if they're lucky. Hopefully...