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Gary Sinise has shared the heartbreaking news that his son McCanna ‘Mac’ Sinise has died at the age of 33.
The 68-year-old Forrest Gump actor revealed that his son died on January 5 following a years-long battle with the rare spinal cancer Chordoma in a post shared to the Gary Sinise Foundation’s website on Tuesday.
Mac had worked with the foundation and had supported his father’s Lt. Dan Band on drums until repeated spinal surgeries and the advancement of his cancer in recent years forced him to step away.
‘I am so blessed, fortunate, and proud to be his dad,’ Sinise wrote in his moving obituary.
In a lengthy tribute to his son, Sinise recalled the twin tragedies of 2018, when his wife Moria was diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer in June, before Mac received his chordoma diagnosis in August.
While Moira would eventually go into remission after successful surgery to remove lymph nodes, followed by chemotherapy and radiation treatments, her son was less fortunate.
Sinise shared that his son underwent surgery in September 2018 to remove a tumor on his spine, followed by a second surgery in February 2019 to combat an infection.
The family got bad news in May of that year when a follow-up scan revealed that Mac’s tumor had returned, and the cancer had spread.
Despite his worsening condition and difficult treatments, Sinise wrote that his son continued to come into the foundation’s office regularly, and after he was unable to he continued to work behind the scenes.
The actor revealed that Mac’s final project for the foundation was a podcast interview with father and son.
Was Gary Sinise’s son married?
While Gary Sinise and his wife, Moira Harris, have been married for over four decades and share three children together, there is no publicly available information confirming whether their son, Mac Sinise, has ever been married.
