AP: McCain Had Cancer Surgery THIS YEAR, Didn't Tell Anyone

[kpete]

AP: McCain Had Cancer Surgery THIS YEAR, Didn't Tell Anyone
Hat tip to John Aravosis at Americablog for catching this.

According to today's AP report about McCain's medical records (titled "McCain Appears Cancer-Free, Healthy"), we learn this:

McCain's most recent exams show a range of health issues common in aging: He frequently has precancerous skin lesions removed, and in February had an early stage squamous cell carcinoma, an easily cured skin cancer, removed. He had benign colon growths called polyps taken out during a routine colonoscopy in March.

So why didn't the McCain campaign report this in February? Surely the Republican party would want to know that their 71-year-old candidate was having even more cancer surgery? And what else is the McCain campaign hiding?

http://www.americablog.com/2008/05/mccain-had-cancer-surgery-in-february.html
http://www.newsweek.com/id/138330
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/5/23/143820/786/388/521335

[blondeatlast]

1. Vice President Lieberman; that's all we need to think about. Ugh. nt

[DS1]

2. Yes

You'd think we'd settle on a candidate and truly go after this guy. :crazy:

[gordianot]

3. The thought of Lieberman VP makes me eternally ill.

That horror never occurred to me but it could be a possibility. I may not sleep tonight.

[RB TexLa]

6. nothing to worry about, do you honestly think the GOP is going to have a pro-choice VP?

[gordianot]

12. Desperate people in desperate times.

[blondeatlast]

22. Yes, in the spirit of "bipartisanship." Bookmark this. nt

[Liberal Gramma]

4. Squamous cell carcinoma isn't a major threat

it doesn't metasticize (spelling?) and it doesn't foreshadow other cancers. It can usually be removed in the doctor's office and the biggest danger in letting it go is that it could become large enough to require a skin graft. I don't think the Republicans are going to be too worried about this, and we shouldn't either. On the other hand, many of his political positions are lethal, and we should worry a lot about them.

[petersjo02]

8. Squamous cell ca can and does does metastisize.

My horse, now buried in our pasture, died as a result of a bowel obstruction caused by metastatic squamous cell carcinoma.

[Liberal Gramma]

13. Maybe it's "rarely" metastisizes

because I had this and my surgeon said there was no danger of spreading.

[shanti]

15. and yours were probably bcc's

i've had a couple removed myself.

[shanti]

14. that is wrong

you're referring to basal cell carcinomas, which are slow growing and don't metastasize. squamous cell carcinomas, on the other hand, DO.

[Liberal Gramma]

16. Of course. You're right

I guess I also suffer from non-premature senility. Basal cell carcinoma sounds vaguely familiar. Thanks.

[shanti]

20. no problem

i get a touch of that myself now and then :hi:

[orleans]

5. k&r n/t

[Toshiba-Kawasaki]

7. He had a mole removed

Wow.

[JanusAscending]

9. Are you lost?

'cause me thinks you are in the wrong place!

[Mojorabbit]

11. I agree with him

Heck I am in my fifties and I have one I need to get removed when I get around to it. From the reports it was not melanoma like he had before. Most people turn up with small skin cancers as they age.

[opihimoimoi]

10. Whad about the Lobot last year Summer? They hiding the removal of his Common Sense, Reason, an Logic

called a partial Lobot....

:satire:

[L. Coyote]

17. What are the side effects of his blood thinning medication?

blood thinners have some very alarming side-effects, including neurological problems.

I was told by a neurologist, when asking about senility and other neurological degeneration
attributed to the side-effects, that, "It is better than being dead."

[Joe Chi Minh]

18. Pondering the Republicans' choice of McCain as their own most plausible candidate

for the presidency among the people, for a moment it really shocked me how accurately they gauged the public's disapproval of them. I mean, even with the MSM pitching for them, they must realise that not that many people would fall for the "war-hero McCain" schtik, so their desperation is evidently real, and even they can see, more than a little well-founded.

I'd forgotten that only a few of them have actually served in the armed forces.

[Liberal_in_LA]

19. Also... another article is reporting that they downplayed his melanoma.

[windoe]

21. "Well...... .... ...... ......"

Republicans running a pre-Alzheimer's candidate and a lifelong cocaine addict, this fits right in with their evil plan of having a numbskull front man hiding the crimes behind the curtain. Only this time it won't work!