Ex-Senate Commerce Chairman McCain Ending Treatment for Brain Cancer

The family of Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain, R-Ariz., said Friday the senator has “chosen to discontinue” his more than yearlong treatment for an aggressive form of brain cancer. McCain was diagnosed with cancer in July 2017 and in the year since “has surpassed expectations for his survival,” the senator’s family said in a statement. “But the progress of disease and the inexorable advance of age render their verdict.” McCain, a three-time former Senate Commerce Committee chairman, oversaw the committee for a majority of the decade immediately after passage of the 1996 Telecom Act. He has more recently been active on cybersecurity issues, including the push to create a separate Senate cybersecurity committee (see 1612190061).