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Ted Kennedy - Politics, Business, Civil, History - Posted: 20th Jan, 2009 - 8:04pm
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I hadn't noticed anyone post whether it was malignant or benign and just came across this. Thought I would update this with the following information.
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| BOSTON - Senator Edward M. Kennedy, the longtime Massachusetts Democrat and patriarch of the Kennedy family, has a malignant brain tumor, his doctors said on Tuesday. Doctors here at Massachusetts General Hospital, who were investigating the cause of a seizure that Mr. Kennedy, 76, suffered at his Cape Cod compound on Saturday, said preliminary results from a biopsy of the brain had revealed that he has a malignant glioma in the left parietal lobe, the upper left part of his brain Dr. Lee H. Schwamm, the hospital's vice chairman of neurology, and Dr. Larry Ronan, Mr. Kennedy's primary care physician at the hospital, said in a statement that 'the usual course of treatment includes combinations of various forms of radiation and chemotherapy" and that "decisions regarding the best course of treatment for Senator Kennedy will be determined after further testing and analysis." Malignant glioma is the most common form of brain cancer, accounting for about 9,000 cases diagnosed each year in the United States, according to the National Cancer Institute. They are more common in older people, especially those between the ages of 75 and 84, according to the American Cancer Society |
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