holy shit--teddy kennedy has a brain tumor

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/05/20/kennedy.tumor/index.html?eref=rss_topstories

BOSTON, Massachusetts (CNN) -- U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy has a malignant brain tumor, doctors treating him at Massachusetts General Hospital said Tuesday.

Sen. Edward Kennedy suffered a seizure Saturday in Hyannisport, Massachusetts.

Kennedy, 76, was hospitalized Saturday morning after suffering a seizure at his family's compound at Hyannisport, Massachusetts.

"Preliminary results from a biopsy of the brain identified the cause of the seizure as a malignant glioma in the left parietal lobe," according to a statement from the doctors treating the senator.

Malignant glioma is the most common primary brain tumor, accounting for more than half of the 18,000 primary malignant brain tumors diagnosed each year in the United States, according to the National Cancer Institute.

White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said President Bush was "deeply saddened" by the news and would keep the senator in his prayers.

Kennedy had surgery in October to clear his carotid artery in hopes of preventing a stroke.

In recent days, the powerful Democrat had appeared to be in fine health. On Friday, he took part in a ribbon-cutting ceremony for a new maritime learning center in New Bedford, Massachusetts.
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The usual course of treatment for Kennedy's type of tumor includes radiation and chemotherapy, said the statement from Dr. Lee Schwamm, vice chairman of the Department of Neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital, and Dr. Larry Ronan, primary care physician at the hospital.

shoulda changed his last name

massachusetts isn't going to know how to function when tk kicks the nantucket man's bucket.

There's so much alcohol flowing through him, I'm surprised a tumor could even survive. It's probably been there for a couple of decades but was too wasted to do anything to him.

lllllol

the kennedy retrotumoral alcohol cocktail

or something..