In his last book, McCain revealed how he found out he had brain cancer

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• In his new memoir, Arizona senator and former Republican presidential nominee John McCain revealed the heartbreaking details of how he found out he had brain cancer.
• His fight with brain cancer has kept him home in Arizona and away from Congress for much of the last year.
• McCain died on Saturday, one day after his family announced he would be discontinuing his cancer treatment.

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In his last memoir, Arizona senator and former Republican presidential nominee John McCain revealed the heartbreaking details of how he found out he had brain cancer.

In seventh McCain's book, titled "The Restless Wave: Good Times, Just Causes, Great Fights, and Other Appreciations," he writes that he was scheduled for a regular physical on Friday, July 14, 2017 at the Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale.See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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