(Natural News) Feisty and independent, sometimes cantankerous and most always politically unpredictable, long-serving Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., 81, a former Navy pilot and Vietnam War vet who suffered like no human should ever have to as a POW for six years, died on Saturday of an aggressive form of brain cancer.

Interestingly, McCain's death – on August 25 – came nine years to the day after another long-serving and notable U.S. senator, Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., 77, died, and from the same aggressive form of brain cancer, Breitbart News reported.

The two were often on different sides of the political aisle, but both had respect for one another and were friends.

It's too bad that both were eventually done in by the same Big Pharma cancer cabal that deals only in poisoning bodies and, most often, hastening death.

In fact, there is a growing body of evidence that one of the most common standard treatments for cancer — chemotherapy drugs – are themselves responsible for causing cancers in some people.

As reported by The Truth About Cancer, in 2004 the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention – an agency not known for its candor when it comes to health threats posed by Big Pharma – along with the National Institute for Occupational Safety & Health (NIOSH) "released a dangerous drug-alert with the title, Preventing Occupational Exposures to Antineoplastic and Other Hazardous Drugs in Health Care Settings."

The alert contained a warning that those who regularly work with chemo drugs and other common pharmaceuticals pose a danger to their own health.