Meghan McCain: My father is the toughest person I know

Meghan McCain said in a statement Wednesday that her father, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), has remained “confident and calm” since he was diagnosed with brain cancer.

Meghan McCain said that her family has “endured the shock” of her father’s diagnosis and that they are living “with the anxiety about what comes next.”

The Fox News host praised her father’s demeanor since receiving the news, calling him “the toughest person I know.”

“The cruelest enemy could not break him. The aggression of political life could not bend him. So he is meeting this challenge as he has every other,” Meghan McCain wrote. “Cancer may afflict him in many ways: but it will not make him surrender. Nothing ever has.”

{mosads}She wrote that she believes the senator will overcome the disease and that his death remains “far away,” but that her “fears for him are overwhelmed by one thing above all: gratitude for our years together, and the years still to come.”

“He is my strength, my example, my refuge, my confidante, my teacher, my rock, my hero — my dad,” she wrote.

Statement regarding my father @SenJohnMcCain: pic.twitter.com/SMte9Hkwkq

— Meghan McCain (@MeghanMcCain) July 20, 2017

The Mayo Clinic Hospital in Phoenix announced the senator’s cancer diagnosis Wednesday, days after he had surgery to remove a blood clot from above his left eye.

“The Senator and his family are reviewing further treatment options with his Mayo Clinic care team. Treatment options may include a combination of chemotherapy and radiation,” the hospital said in a statement.