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...Less than three weeks later, McCain endured 5½ hours of surgery to remove a patch of skin including the blemish, roughly 5 cm (2 in.) wide. The diagnosis: Stage 2A melanoma, an invasive form of skin cancer that claims the lives of up to 34% of those diagnosed within 10 years. Doctors also made an incision down his left cheek to remove lymph nodes in his neck in case the cancer had spread; they found it had not. The surgery left a large scar, and for weeks McCain retreated from public view to recover...
...Losing the G.O.P. nomination in 2000 gave McCain time to catch and treat the cancer at an early stage, which possibly saved his life. "If it was left alone, the risk was high that that melanoma would not just have become thicker but would also almost certainly have spread to the lymph nodes," says Dr. Jeffrey Lee, a cancer physician at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, who did not participate in McCain's care. "And the assumption would be that could occur within a period of a few months, if it hadn't happened already...
...Springsteen's hits, notably 1973's 4th of July, Asbury Park and 1980's Hungry Heart. Federici was a "pure natural musician," Springsteen wrote in a message on his website. "I loved him very much ... we grew up together." Federici died at 58 after a long battle with melanoma...
...After analyzing an exhaustive dataset of over 50,000 cases of melanoma in the US that were diagnosed between 1992 and 2003, the scientists, led by Dr. Nancy Thomas, a dermatologist, discovered to their surprise that patients with lesions in the scalp and neck died almost twice as fast after diagnosis as those whose tumors started anywhere else on the body. "The results really did surprise us," says Thomas. "For a long time, there has been a lot of controversy over whether all head and neck melanomas had worse survival, and this study shows a large difference in survival...
...Markus R.T. Kolic ’09, former chair of the Harvard Students for Edwards, said he hopes that Elizabeth will continue to be critical of Republican presidential candidate John McCain’s health care policy. Edwards has said that neither she nor McCain, who was treated for melanoma, would be covered under his proposed health insurance plan. “She’s been excellent for the Democratic Party on health care,” Kolic said. “She does not pull her punches.” The Edwards family already has some ties...