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And how urgent this operation was, as well as what caused all of this in the first place. >> senator john mccain is recovering well after an operation last friday to remove a malignant brain tumor, known as glioblastoma. with senator mccains permission, i spoke exclusively to two of his mayo clinic doctors about the details of his care. mccain had come in for a scheduled annual physical early friday morning with no complaints except intermittent double vision and fatigue, which he contributed to...

Medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta who reviewed mccains medical records back in 2008 when the senator was a republican presidential nominee. what do you know today, sanjay? >> reporter: well, weve got a lot more details. obviously i think everyone has heard that he had this operation this past friday, but it was a little unclear exactly what the operation was for or what caused the problem in the first place or how to reconcile that with how he had been acting a over the past several weeks. ...

Details of his care. mccain had come in for a scheduled an you will physical friday morning with no complaints except intermittent double vision and fatigue, which he attributed to an intention travel schedule over the last several months. his doctors ordered a cat scan. upon review, doctors called mccain, who left the hospital, and asked him to immediately return for an mri. the scans revealed a five centimeter blood clot above his left eye. the decision was made to perform an urgent operation....

And it was that cat scan and subsequent mri scan that revealed the abnormality. it was concerning enough that within the next couple of hours, the doctors took him to the operating room, they performed this incision as you heard, right in the left eyebrow area, removed some bone and removed this -- they believe they removed the entire tumor that they could see from that area of the left front of his brain. this is a glioblastoma. some people may have heard this term before. this is the same type...

Care. mccain had come in for a scheduled annual physical early friday morning with no complaints except intermittent double vision and fatigue, which he attributed to an intense international travel schedule over the last several months. his doctors ordered a cat scan to check for anything from a possible blood collection to a stroke. upon review of the scan, doctors called mccain, who had left the hospital, and asked him to immediately return for an mri. the scans revealed a five-centimeter blo...

Vision and fatigue which he attributed to an intense international travel schedule over the last month. his doctors ordered a cat scan to check for a blood collection or a stroke. upon review doctors called mccain who had left the hospital and asked him to immediately return for an mri. the scans revealed a five-centimeter blood clot above the senators left eye which appears to have been up there for a week. the decision was made to perform an urgent operation. by 3:00 p.m. mccain was in the ope...

Everybody. >> what more can you tell us about this? you were given this information or permission by the senator or by his family in order to broadcast this? >> yes, they -- with his permission, i spoke to the doctors they ask that i talk to the doctors get the information about what happened. we know that on friday morning he went to the doctors basically for a scheduled annual physical exam. he was complaining a bit of fatigue and said hes been feeling tired over the last few months. he also h...

Up, prescheduled. complained of fatigue and he had a little bit of double vision. it was enough for the doctors to order a c.a.t. scan, which ordered the blood collection. that day, he was in the operating room having that blood clot taken out through the incision above the eyebrow. as you point out now, and as we have heard, the blood collection, that bleeding was caused by a tumor. the tumor is known as a glioblastoma, a type of brain tumor, an aggressive type of cancer. that news is coming ou...

Ive had a headache, lightness of head or vomiting. then the doctor says lets get a kath scan. they find a mass inside the brain and they decide to go ahead and do surgery. in his case he had the surgery that removed the blood clot. they did laboratory studies on it. that connection makes sense the fact that again he went in for a clinic examination that he does all the time and because of that examination they found other things and went ahead and got the cat scan that started the process. >> dr...

Be part of his normal scheduled checkup back home in arizona where theyre fortunate to have a branch after the mayo clinic. > its hard to tell based on the information we do have, but if you piece history together, he had that one confirmation hearing that he was a little bit confused at and typically what happens is people go to their doctors and said either im confused or ive had some thought process issues, maybe ive had a headache, lightness of head or vomiting. then the doctor says lets get...