Sen. Claire McCaskill announces she has breast cancer

Sen. Claire McCaskill announces she has breast cancer, Sen. Claire McCaskill said Monday she has breast cancer.

“It was detected through a approved mammogram,” the Missouri Democrat said in a column on Tumblr. “It’s a little scary, but my cast is acceptable and I apprehend a abounding recovery.”

McCaskill said she would abide analysis in St. Louis for the next three weeks. During that time, she affairs to column online her positions on issues beneath application in the Senate.

Her appointment did not accommodate added data on the diagnosis, or the blazon of analysis McCaskill will pursue.

Reaction to the affliction was swift.

“Claire and I plan calm every day, and I absolutely ambition her and her ancestors the actual best as she deals with this difficult diagnosis,” said Sen. Roy Blunt of Missouri in a statement. “I will footfall in in any way I can to advice while she seeks treatment, and achievement she makes a accelerated recovery.”

Other colleagues abutting in. “Praying for a quick and accelerated accretion for @clairecmc” said a cheep from Sen. Lindsey Graham, a Republican of South Carolina.

“Wishing my actual best for a accelerated accretion to one of the Senate’s toughest fighters, @clairecmc. The accomplished Twitterverse is actuality for you!” said Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a Massachusetts Democrat.

House Speaker Paul Ryan: “Janna’s & my thoughts are with @clairecmc during this aggravating time.”

Sen. Marco Rubio, a applicant for president: “Praying for my aide Senator @clairecmc’s abounding and accelerated accretion as she fights breast cancer.”

McCaskill is 62. She was aboriginal adopted to the U.S. Senate in 2006, afterwards confined as Missouri auditor, the Jackson County prosecutor, and as a accompaniment legislator. She was re-elected to the Senate in 2012.

She appear endure year that she would not run for governor, but she is believed to be absorbed in alive for the Senate if her accepted appellation expires in 2018.

A breast blight able said Monday that analysis for the ache is not necessarily debilitating. “We accept the atomic bases for abounding of the subtypes of breast cancer, and because of that we’ve been able to actualize targeted therapies,” said Dr. Anne O’Dea, a breast medical oncologist at the University of Kansas Blight Center. “I accept patients who abide actual active.”

Mammograms for adolescent patients accept been arguable in contempo years. Some studies advance they’re not bare for women beneath 50 with no ancestors history of the disease, although several women’s bloom advancement groups accept acknowledged those findings.

In any case, mammograms are advised accepted for women who are McCaskill’s age. “Women age 55 and earlier should about-face to mammograms every two years, or accept the best to abide annual screening,” the American Blight Society says. More common screenings are recommended for patients at accident for breast cancer.

McCaskill set no calendar for her acknowledgment to Washington. “Thank you for the account of confined you in the Senate,” her account said.
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