Senator Claire McCaskill Reveals Breast Cancer Diagnosis

By Anna Merlan | February 22, 2016 | 9:15pm

Politics

Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill posted a note to Tumblr Monday afternoon disclosing that she’s recently been diagnosed with breast cancer.

McCaskill wrote in her post that she was diagnosed recently through a mammogram; she didn’t state what stage the cancer is. “It’s a little scary,” she wrote, “but my prognosis is good and I expect a full recovery.” She added that she’ll be treated in St. Louis for the next three weeks and absent from the Senate.