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Does John McCain Have Cancer?

by | 9th, March 2008

mccain-adam-ant.jpgDOES John McCain have cancer?

Says the New York Times in “On the Campaign Trail, Few Mentions of McCain’s Bout With Melanoma”:

In 1999, during Mr. McCain’s first race for president, he gave the public an extraordinary look at his medical history — 1,500 pages of medical and psychiatric records that were amassed as part of a United States Navy project to gauge the health of former prisoners of war.

Only:

But this time around, Mr. McCain has yet to make his full medical records or his physicians available to reporters. At least three times since March 2007, campaign officials have told The New York Times that they would provide the detailed information about his current state of health, but they have not done so. The campaign now says it expects to release the information in April.

Has the New York Times at least three times requested a look at Mr McCain’s medical notes? Has it given up asking and resorted to just giving it a good guess?

Does McCain have cancer? He had an melanoma surgery – “The final pathology analysis showed no evidence of spread of the melanoma, his staff said at the time.”

adam_and_the_ants_5.jpgSo McCain does not have cancer. Says the NY Times: “So Mr. McCain’s prognosis for the recurrence of melanoma can be gauged only by talking to experts not connected with his case. Those experts say his prospects appear favorable.”

Has the NY Times turned into the National Enquirer? Is at aiming that high? The Enquirer thrives on the opinion of professionals offering expert opinion on a celebrity they are not treating or representing.

The campaign also said Mr. McCain regularly took Vytorin to lower his cholesterol, a baby aspirin to help prevent heart attacks, a multivitamin and, occasionally, Claritin or Flonase for allergies.

And? And nothing. That’s it. Not only is politics showbusiness for ugly people but they have to get by on fewer drugs than the average celebrity has for elevenses.

“It was not out of line,” said one of the experts, Dr. Richard L. Shapiro, a melanoma surgeon at New York University… “With melanoma, a patient is never completely clear,” says Dr. Shapiro.

That opening question needs to be rephrased: Does John McCain have cancer, and if not, why not?



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