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McCain Warns of Sun Dangers After Dermatological Checkup
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ABC News' Bret Hovell Reports: John McCain used the occasion Monday of his quarterly dermatological checkup to remind Americans about the dangers of skin cancer.
“I want to urge all Americans to wear sunscreen, particularly this summer, to stay out of the sun as much as possible…” McCain said, “and if you have any slight discoloration, please go to your dermatologist or your doctor and get it checked up on.”
McCain was speaking to reporters in Bakersfield, Calif, a few hours after having a small spot removed from his right temple out of what appears to be an abundance of caution being exercised by his doctors.
McCain said the procedure was routine, and that his doctor “took a small little nick from my cheek as she does regularly.” McCain said the spot would be biopsied “just to make sure everything is fine.”
He was asked if his doctor was confident that the spot was nothing, and he replied, “sure, sure, absolutely.”
McCain is a four time survivor of melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, and he regularly stresses the importance of protection from the sun.
“Melanoma is a preventable occurrence,” the Arizona Republican said. “It really is, it’s one of the most preventable occurrences, but remember a lot of the damage that people receive from the sun when they’re young sometimes comes back later in life."
In 2000, McCain had a spot on his left temple removed along with more than thirty lymph nodes on the left side of his face and neck. The procedure was successful, but left the Senator with a large scar running the length of his face. McCain has been cancer free since 2002.
The presumptive Republican nominee sees his dermatologist every three months for screenings, and today’s visit in Phoenix was one of them. A campaign aide said that the doctor was not concerned by the lesion that had to be removed, adding it was, “nothing that looked in any way cancerous.”
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Mack
The mistakes that Obama has made were not repeatedly made like McCain's. Also, unlike Bush, Obama attended Harvard Princeton without the benefit of a wealthy father so he truly earned his degrees. Fact it, McCain joined the miletary because he would never have made it to an Ivy league school!
Posted by: roxanne | Jul 28, 2008 3:35:10 PM
Snub our troops? Did you see all the troops around when he was nailing those three's? The Pentagon didn't want him to go to the base so he didn't. Man Mcsame is an incompitant moron he doesn't even know whats going on he's just making stuff up now . And last I saw it was mcsame who wanted Obama to go on this trip. Now he's just using it as an attack even though it was huge. Worse of all Mcsame is just making stuff up now.
Posted by: Joe | Jul 28, 2008 3:46:51 PM
My god this is a mole. How many were removed today in the world. Lets not give him cancer until the results come out. Look at Warren Buffett now about to retire is 77. The average age of the justices on the Supreme Court is 68. This list goes on and on but I will not waste my time with people who obvious want to prejudice based on age.
Posted by: William | Jul 28, 2008 3:51:45 PM
McCain is younger than Reagan was when he ran for his second term. I don't know why we don't hear more about this fact in response to the democrats who put McCain down because of his age. I find it ironical when members of the party of inclusion try and use age against McCain.
Posted by: Susan | Jul 28, 2008 3:57:56 PM
Well he not my favorite.But I pray that everything with goe fine with him.
Posted by: Matthew C. George | Jul 28, 2008 4:16:25 PM
katie
it is funny how the repubs think a senile vulgar old man knows everything----but then they gave us bush---WOW
Posted by: rodney | Jul 28, 2008 4:42:55 PM
Here we go, McCain is falling apart. Is this the man we want in the White House? I hope his VEEP is ready on day one.
Posted by: JD | Jul 28, 2008 4:43:33 PM
chattyway - I read your "conclusion" carefully and it's completely insane. You extrapolate a whole lot of nonsense from something that was obviously a simple mistake. The guy misspoke - that's not any kind of "evidence" that he has no knowledge of history, as you crazily claim. You're a ridiculous kook grasping at straws. Grow up - you only make McCain and his supporters look desperate and ridiculous.
Posted by: Big Stick | Jul 28, 2008 4:44:43 PM
I am midway in age between McCain and Obama and – political differences aside — Obama strikes me as a half-baked twerp who is ten years away from having the experience and wisdom required to be president of the United States. What about Kennedy? Case in point: The Bay of Pigs. Kennedy wasn't ready, either, and he had much more experience in government than Obama. The presidency is not an Olympic sport, it requires mostly wisdom.
Posted by: JerseyWarren | Jul 28, 2008 4:46:26 PM
HE JERSEY
AND MCCAIN HAS WISDOM--ha ha ha ha ha
Posted by: rodney | Jul 28, 2008 4:48:23 PM
JerseyWarren - Obama has the same amount of experience as Abe Lincoln did when he was elected. McCain is just too old.
Posted by: Ritchie J. | Jul 28, 2008 4:50:04 PM
I am not a McCain supporter, but I wish him well. My prayers go out to him and his family. Being a cancer survivor myself, I know stress should be kept as low as possible because it will play a major part in whether the cancer returns or not. McCain should put his health and family first.
Posted by: Concerned | Jul 28, 2008 4:51:13 PM
Am I the only one who finds it hillarious that chattyway is getting owned by a teenager?
Posted by: Ritchie J. | Jul 28, 2008 4:52:54 PM
katie
you can count on one thing and that is most all the over 50 gang is racist and cannot stand the thought that obama is more intelligent than any of them --believe me i know as i am as old as mcdummy
Posted by: rodney | Jul 28, 2008 4:54:17 PM
Okay I am working on the Obama campain. I'm not paid, but the kool-aid is just fine! All of you are going to take a BIG DRINK in november! LOL!!! I hope some of you choke..
Posted by: Joe | Jul 28, 2008 4:55:43 PM
jim jones was a repub.
Posted by: rodney | Jul 28, 2008 4:55:51 PM
WOW BIG STICK GLAD YOUR LOL!!
Posted by: KOO-AID | Jul 28, 2008 4:56:25 PM
"Dead man walking!"
Posted by: Ekanem | Jul 28, 2008 4:56:56 PM
No ritchie it f'in hilarious!! I think chatty is great! just makes it easier to prove the reasons to vote Obama in november!
Posted by: Joe | Jul 28, 2008 4:58:28 PM
SOME HISTORY FOR YOU ABOUT THE OBAMA KOO-AID ALIKE!
James Warren "Jim" Jones (May 13, 1931 – November 18, 1978) was the American founder of the Peoples Temple, which became synonymous with mass suicide after the November 18, 1978 death of over 900 people from cyanide poisoning in their isolated agricultural intentional community called Jonestown, along with the death of 9 other people at a nearby airstrip and in Georgetown. To the extent the actions in Jonestown were viewed as a mass suicide, it is one of the largest such mass suicides in history, perhaps the largest in over 1,900 years and the largest mass suicide of United States citizens. One of those dying at the nearby airstrip was Leo Ryan, who became the first and only Congressman murdered in the line of duty in the history of the United States.
Posted by: KOO-AID | Jul 28, 2008 4:59:06 PM
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