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June 23rd, 2008

McCain says bandage on head due to “low-hanging roof”

Posted by: Steve Holland

 FRESNO, California — Republican presidential candidate John McCain had a bandage on the top of his head on Monday, but McCain said it was not due to a new bout of skin cancer.

“It was a brush with a lowmccain3.jpg-hanging door,” McCain told reporters at a news conference at Fresno State University.

McCain has had four instances of melanoma — a potentially lethal type of skin cancer — and various other skin growths have been taken off his body over the years.

McCain, 71, said he bumped his head getting out of a car during a visit to Canada last weekend. He said his head “hit the roof a teeny bit.”

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Photo credit:Reuters/Chris Wattie. (John McCain smiles while delivering a speech to the Economic Club of Canada in Ottawa on June 20, 2008)