Senator McCain gets Clean Bill of Health

The Presidential candidate from Arizona, who will turn 72 in August, is now cancer free and healthy.

WASHINGTON, DC (Catholic Online) - 1,173 pages of detailed Medical Records were made available to the Associated Press today by the McCain campaign.

The Records covered the years 2000 to 2008.

In short, , has a healthy heart and, except for having to control his cholesterol with the help of medication like many other Americans, is in good heath.

The release of the records comes amidst a growing discussion of the candidate's age. It also comes during the week after the tragic news of Senator Ted Kennedy's brain cancer diagnosis.

Senator McCain has survived three melanoma's, skin cancers, and is thus at risk for recurrence.

He regularly sees a dermatologist and has no lesions of any concern to the reviewing physicians. He had four separate melanomas excised from his head and arm in 1993, 2000 and 2002.Three of the lesions were early stage and were easily removed.

However, the one on his left temple was "invasive" and required delicate surgery to remove. It also led to an examination of his lymph nodes to determine whether the cancer had spread. It had not. There was no invasion into his lymph system.

His expected Democratic rival for the Presidency, Senator Barack Obama, will turn 47 in August. He is young, athletic and recently quit smoking.

Senator Obama has not yet released his own health records but is presumed to be in very good health.

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