John McCain Discontinuing Treatment for Brain Cancer, Family Says

August 24, 2018

(CNN) – Sen. John McCain has decided to stop treatment for the brain cancer he has been battling for over a year, his family said Friday in an announcement that precipitated a rare moment of bipartisan empathy in honor of the Vietnam war hero and Republican political veteran. Colleagues of McCain, 81, had been bracing for the worst for months as the Arizona senator retreated from public life to fight the disease.