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 had a bout of double vision. But because of those things his doctors decided to order a cat scan of his brain. This is all friday this happened. It was that cat scan and an a subsequent mri scan of the vain that revealed this abnormality. It was concerning enough that urgently, within the next couple of hours, the doctors took him to the operating room, they per
performed the incision in the left eyebrow area, removed some intone they believed they removed the entire tumor they could see from the area o
able to tell you what year it was. he was making jokes with the recovery room staff. but again, it takes a few days for these diagnoses to come back, because the pathologist actually has to review it and this is what they found, anderson. what are the potential next steps? well, this is one of those types of tumors that is it doesn t have a particular cure. there s not a type of treatment that you can say is going to likely lead to a cure. the types of treatments typically are a combination of chemotherapy, and radiation. radiation to that part of his brain. this is a discussion that i m sure senator mccain and his family are going to have with doctors as exactly how to proceed. and also, when to proceed. just recovering from this operation as you and i have talked about can take a couple of weeks. even to begin this sort of therapy, radiation therapy, chemotherapy, they have to wait at least three or four weeks at least until after the operation. until after the operation. he ha
performed the incision in the left eyebrow area, removed some intone they believed they removed the entire tumor they could see from the area of the left front of his brain. this is a glee owe blas toe ma. it s the same type of tumor that senator kennedy had, that bo biden had. it is an aggressive type of brain cancer. so senator mccain and his family are dealing with the news and trying to decide the next steps in terms of treatment. he is at home, he was able to go home the next day after surgery. he had a rapid recovery. the doctors told me after he woke up from the anesthesia, he was alert, sharp, able to tell you what year it was. he was making jokes with the recovery room staff. but again it takes a few days for these diagnoses to come back because the pathologist has to review it and this is what they found. what are the potential next