Doctors: Kennedy Has Brain Tumor
Posted on: Tuesday, 20 May 2008, 15:00 CDT
U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., has a malignant brain tumor, doctors caring for him at a Boston hospital said Tuesday.
Kennedy, hospitalized at Massachusetts General Hospital since suffering a seizure at the family compound in Hyannis Port Saturday, had undergone testing to determine the seizure's cause.
In a statement, doctors treating the Kennedy patriarch said, Preliminary results from a biopsy of the brain identified the cause of the seizure as a malignant glioma in the left parietal lobe, CNN reported.
The customary treatment course includes a combination of radiation and chemotherapy, doctors said.
Source: United Press International
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