McCanna “Mac” Sinise, the son of Gary Sinise, has passed away due to an uncommon type of illness. At the time, he was 33.
The Gary Sinise Foundation announced Sinise’s passing via Instagram on Tuesday, accompanying the post with the sentimental phrase “In Honor & Memory of McCanna ‘Mac’ Sinise 1990-2024.” The foundation stated in a statement that Mac was diagnosed with chordoma, an extremely uncommon form of cancer, on August 8, 2018. The foundation states that chordoma is a type of cancer that arises from the spine and has a yearly incidence of no more than 300 cases in the United States.
The 68-year-old actor disclosed in an extensive obituary for Mac that Sinise posted to his website that his son passed away at 3:25 p.m. on January 5, 2024, and was interred on January 23, 2024. “We, like any family going through a bereavement of this nature, are inconsolable and have been doing our best to cope.” “Being a parent, the loss of a child is unbearably trying,” Sinise composed.
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“My heart goes out to everyone who has endured a comparable loss, as well as to anyone who has lost a loved one,” he continued. Each of us has encountered it to some degree. I have encountered countless families of our fallen warriors over the years. “It is both heartbreaking and damn difficult.”
“Our family’s cancer fight lasted for 5 ½ years, and it became more and more challenging as time went on,” Sinise explained. “While our hearts ache at missing him, we are comforted in knowing that Mac is no longer struggling, and inspired and moved by how he managed it.”
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“Despite facing an insurmountable opposition from cancer with no known cure, he persevered in his efforts.” “Mac was a movie aficionado, and we used to tell him that he reminded us of that soldier at the end of the extraordinary film ‘1917,’ who was running through the battlefield as bombs detonated one by one, yet he continued to run forward, refuse to give up.” Sinise remarked, “I feel so privileged, fortunate, and blessed to be his father.”
Mac was diagnosed with chordoma two months later. Since he was unaware of the extremely rare cancer, Sinise claimed to have been confused at the time.
“And a mother and her kid, both cancer sufferers, within two months of one another? A genuine gut punch,” he wrote. “I looked for information online. A one-in-a-million cancer is choreoma. Just 300 Americans are affected by chordoma annually on average; it is a spinal condition. 70% of cases are curable if the original tumor is removed. However, 30% of cases—roughly 90 people annually—have the cancer recur.”