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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/382409_mccainhealth09.html
Consider McCain's health as well as candidate's age
By RICHARD E. SEROUSSI
GUEST COLUMNIST
As a physician, I am concerned that presidential candidate John McCain
has not been willing to release his medical records for public
scrutiny. While I can appreciate that the senator is a "very young" 72-
year-old man, he is clearly at an age where his mortality is
significantly more likely than for a younger man. The country should
understand if he is at significant risk for a disease process that
would carry enough morbidity to make him unable to perform the
position of president for the next four years.
McCain has never issued a full public release of his medical records
though this is standard practice for presidential candidates. He did,
however, release 1,173 pages of his records for three hours so that a
group of reporters and doctors could evaluate them. As doctors had to
review a massive amount of documents in that time, it is impossible
that they could have evaluated whether he is healthy enough to be
president.
CNN correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta recently told The Huffington Post,
"We were given three hours to go over 1,200 pages of records. That is
a lot to go through. It was very sort of cloak and dagger and I'm sure
they had their reasons. Given that I had my medical training, I was
able to hone in on what it thought was important more quickly. But the
pages weren't numbered, so I had no way of knowing what was
missing. ... As a reporter I can only comment on what I saw but I
can't say by any means that this was complete. ... As far as the
secretiveness of it, what they said to us is that you can't take
anything out of the room, but you could make notes. So it was a lot to
go through in a short period of time."
The little we do know about McCain's records raises questions about
his past melanoma. McCain has had four bouts with melanoma. The Mayo
Clinic deemed the cancer resected from his temple in 2000 to be a
stage IIA melanoma. The Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, however,
reviewed the same slides and concluded that the lesion was "highly
suggestive of a metastasis of malignant melanoma and may represent a
satellite metastasis."
This suggests a far more advanced stage of cancer and would be a stage
IIIB melanoma.
If he is at significant risk for mortality, for example from the
spread of melanoma, a potentially deadly form of skin cancer that he
has had documented in his prior medical history, this will impact our
confidence in his ability to complete the mission of presidency.
Predicted mortality from melanoma is highly dependent upon staging of
the cancer, something the public should understand. This is highly
complex, but can be simplified if accurate medical data are provided
from McCain's medical records.
If he had early staging of melanoma, his mortality risk from that
highly deadly form of skin cancer is likely pretty low. With more
information about the staging of his melanoma, physicians and the
general public can have a better sense of how healthy he is, as well
as how likely it is he will need cancer treatment while in office.
Those medical records should be made available to the voting public,
in order for citizens to make a more informed decision about McCain's
ability to complete his presidency, were he elected.
Richard E. Seroussi, M.D., is board-certified in physical medicine and
rehabilitation, pain medicine and electrodiagnostic medicine. He is on
the clinical faculty at an area medical school.
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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/382409_mccainhealth09.html
Consider McCain's health as well as candidate's age
By RICHARD E. SEROUSSI
GUEST COLUMNIST
As a physician, I am concerned that presidential candidate John McCain
has not been willing to release his medical records for public
scrutiny. While I can appreciate that the senator is a "very young" 72-
year-old man, he is clearly at an age where his mortality is
significantly more likely than for a younger man. The country should
understand if he is at significant risk for a disease process that
would carry enough morbidity to make him unable to perform the
position of president for the next four years.
McCain has never issued a full public release of his medical records
though this is standard practice for presidential candidates. He did,
however, release 1,173 pages of his records for three hours so that a
group of reporters and doctors could evaluate them. As doctors had to
review a massive amount of documents in that time, it is impossible
that they could have evaluated whether he is healthy enough to be
president.
CNN correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta recently told The Huffington Post,
"We were given three hours to go over 1,200 pages of records. That is
a lot to go through. It was very sort of cloak and dagger and I'm sure
they had their reasons. Given that I had my medical training, I was
able to hone in on what it thought was important more quickly. But the
pages weren't numbered, so I had no way of knowing what was
missing. ... As a reporter I can only comment on what I saw but I
can't say by any means that this was complete. ... As far as the
secretiveness of it, what they said to us is that you can't take
anything out of the room, but you could make notes. So it was a lot to
go through in a short period of time."
The little we do know about McCain's records raises questions about
his past melanoma. McCain has had four bouts with melanoma. The Mayo
Clinic deemed the cancer resected from his temple in 2000 to be a
stage IIA melanoma. The Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, however,
reviewed the same slides and concluded that the lesion was "highly
suggestive of a metastasis of malignant melanoma and may represent a
satellite metastasis."
This suggests a far more advanced stage of cancer and would be a stage
IIIB melanoma.
If he is at significant risk for mortality, for example from the
spread of melanoma, a potentially deadly form of skin cancer that he
has had documented in his prior medical history, this will impact our
confidence in his ability to complete the mission of presidency.
Predicted mortality from melanoma is highly dependent upon staging of
the cancer, something the public should understand. This is highly
complex, but can be simplified if accurate medical data are provided
from McCain's medical records.
If he had early staging of melanoma, his mortality risk from that
highly deadly form of skin cancer is likely pretty low. With more
information about the staging of his melanoma, physicians and the
general public can have a better sense of how healthy he is, as well
as how likely it is he will need cancer treatment while in office.
Those medical records should be made available to the voting public,
in order for citizens to make a more informed decision about McCain's
ability to complete his presidency, were he elected.
Richard E. Seroussi, M.D., is board-certified in physical medicine and
rehabilitation, pain medicine and electrodiagnostic medicine. He is on
the clinical faculty at an area medical school.
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