Marking one-year anniversary of John McCain's cancer diagnosis, Meghan McCain comes home
Yvonne Wingett Sanchez
Meghan McCain, the daughter of six-term Republican U.S. Sen. John McCain, is returning to Arizona to be with her father and mom, Cindy.
Her return to Arizona, where she grew up, comes days after the family marked the one-year-anniversary of the senator's battle with glioblastoma. The senator has remained in Arizona since December as he battles the typically deadly form of brain cancer.
"Going home to Arizona to be with my family to honor a year of tough fighting #glioblastoma by my father," said McCain, a political commentator and co-host of ABC's "The View."
Meghan, 33, tries to return to Arizona every other week to spend time with her parents. Her last trip was over the Fourth of July weekend, where the family celebrated with friends and giant water slides.
Meghan has used her national perch to urge more research into the deadly disease and humanized the anguish of families facing it.
Just days ago, Meghan launched a social media effort to help, a 21-year-old woman fighting glioblastoma meet pop star Taylor Swift after her show in Philadelphia.
McCain, 81, and those closest to him have not publicly revealed his long-term medical prognosis, but Cindy McCain, in a lengthy statement last week to The Arizona Republic, thanked the medical professionals at Mayo Clinic in Arizona and the National Institutes of Health and Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in the Washington, D.C., area, and the caregivers working with McCain at his family's Cornville retreat "for their superb care of John, and their amazing efforts to treat this terrible disease and its effects."
"That he is still with us one eventful year later, still working at getting stronger, still engaged in the life of his family and our country, is as much a testament to their dedication, skill, and compassion as it is to his fighting spirit," Cindy McCain said in the statement. "Thank you from the bottom of our hearts."
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