glioblastoma

News4’s Pat Lawson Muse spoke with Kathy Savits, whose daughter, Rachel Rabinovitz, died of glioblastoma, and David F. Arons, JD, CEO of the National Brain Tumor Society.

Approximately 15,000 Americans will be diagnosed with glioblastoma, a rare and aggressive brain cancer, this year.

Approximately 15,000 Americans will be diagnosed with glioblastoma this year. Although considered a rare cancer, doctors are seeing an increase in cases of the aggressive and deadly brain cancer that’s notoriously hard to treat. A local organization that’s helping enroll brain cancer patients in clinical trials around the world gives signs of hope. “This is a really devastating disease,”...

A West Wing aide who was dismissive of gravely ill Sen. John McCain during a closed-door meeting last month has left the White House. White House spokesman Raj Shah says, “Kelly Sadler is no longer employed within the Executive Office of the President.” Sadler told colleagues last month they should disregard McCain’s opinion on President Donald Trump’s CIA nominee because...

White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told staffers Friday that an aide’s recent comment about Sen. John McCain was inappropriate but shouldn’t have been leaked to the media. Sanders told communications’ staffers in a private meeting that it was inappropriate for aide Kelly Sadler to dismiss McCain’s opinion during a recent closed-door meeting because, Sadler said, “he’s dying anyway.”...

Sen. John McCain’s office says he suffered a minor tear in his right Achilles tendon and was treated over the weekend at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. A statement from his office says the 81-year-old Arizona Republican also was treated for “other normal and non-life-threatening side effects of cancer therapy.” McCain is in his sixth Senate term and has...

U.S. Sen. John McCain says doctors have given him a “very poor prognosis” as he battles brain cancer. McCain underwent surgery in July for a brain tumor that was later found to be a form of glioblastoma, the same type of cancer that took the life of his former Senate colleague Edward M. Kennedy in 2009. McCain tells CBS’ “60...

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., spent the weekend outdoors about a week after undergoing surgery and being diagnosed with brain cancer, NBC News reported. McCain, 80, tweeted a photo Sunday afternoon of himself and a friend, Joe Harper, with their feet in the Oak Creek of Zebra Falls in Arizona. The senator’s daughter Maghan McCain also tweeted a photo of the...

Doreen Gentzler explains the cancer Sen. John McCain has – glioblastoma – is the most aggressive type of brain cancer.

Battling brain cancer, John McCain on Thursday vowed to return to the Senate, leveling fresh criticism at the Trump administration and aiming a good-natured dig at Republican and Democratic colleagues shaken by news of his diagnosis.

After doctors removed a blood clot from above Sen. John McCain’s left eye on Friday, the Mayo Clinic released a statement addressing that the procedure revealed a brain tumor.

ice President Joe Biden and his wife, Dr. Jill Biden, touched down in the Bay Area Saturday, prepared to spend the entire weekend discussing health initiatives and raising funds for Democrats. Laura Malpert reports.

Vice President Joe Biden and his wife, Dr. Jill Biden, touched down in the Bay Area Saturday morning for a roundtable discussion focused on cancer research, as well as a Democratic fundraising event scheduled for Sunday.