McCain skin biopsy shows no cancer
A biopsy of a small patch of skin removed from Sen. John McCain’s right cheek showed no evidence of skin cancer, a spokesman for the Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale said.
“No further treatment is necessary,” the spokesman, Michael Yardley, said in a statement released through McCain’s presidential campaign.
The GOP nominee-in-waiting had the skin removed Monday as a precaution during a regular checkup with his dermatologist near Phoenix.
The senator, who suffered severe sun damage from his 5 1/2 years in POW camps during the Vietnam War, gets an in-depth skin cancer check every few months because of a medical history of melanoma. McCain, 71, has survived previous bouts of melanoma that included four lesions.
Eight years ago, doctors removed a melanoma from McCain’s left temple. Doctors also excised early-stage melanomas from his left shoulder in 1993, from his left arm in 2000 and from his nose in 2002.
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