Breaking News: Senator Ted Kennedy Has A Malignant Brain Tumor

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Having lost two dear friends to brain cancer - a housemate and a lover, my heart goes out to Senator Kennedy and his family. It is a devastating disease.  Thank you for keeping us posted on the news Catherine.

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Anyone who would like to send Senator Kennedy their best wishes, can do so by going to TedKennedy.com ( http://tedkennedy.com/page/-/splash/splash.html )

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Heartfelt Reaction by Senator Robert Byrd

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What is Malignant Glioma? The following information is from The National Cancer Institute ( http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/treatment/brain... )...

Summary
Many patients diagnosed with malignant
gliomas ( http://www.cancer.gov/dictionary/db_alpha.aspx?exp... )
between 1997 and 2000 received
treatment that did not conform with established practice guidelines for the
care of adults with this type of brain tumor, according to a new study.

Source
Journal of the American Medical Association, February 2, 2005 (see the journal abstract ( http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=... )).

Background
Malignant gliomas are the most common
primary ( http://www.cancer.gov/dictionary/db_alpha.aspx?exp... )
brain tumor, accounting for more
than half of the more than 18,000 primary malignant brain tumors diagnosed each
year in the United States. These tumors are the second-most common cause of
cancer death in the 15 to 44 age group.

The outlook for patients with malignant gliomas is poor.
Median survival ( http://www.cancer.gov/dictionary/db_alpha.aspx?exp... )
for
patients with moderately severe (grade III) malignant gliomas is three to five
years. For patients with the most severe, aggressive form of malignant glioma
(grade IV glioma or
glioblastoma multiforme ( http://www.cancer.gov/dictionary/db_alpha.aspx?exp... )), median survival is less than a
year.

*I will continue to update as I receive more information.

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