Sen. Ted Kennedy Diagnosed with Brain Tumor
Tuesday May 20, 2008
Senator Ted Kennedy has been diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor, after spending a weekend hospitalized due to seizures. It was initially thought the Senator suffered from a stroke, but tests revealed otherwise. Doctors announced Senator Kennedy's malignant brain tumor diagnosis this afternoon. FoxNews.com is reporting that Kennedy's brain tumor is rumored to be inoperable and the only treatment options are chemotherapy and radiation therapy. Treating doctors from Massachusetts General Hospital have issued a statement saying that more tests need to be conducted to determine Kennedy's treatment plan.
Kennedy's doctors said in a statement that Kennedy underwent a preliminary brain biopsy that showed a malignant glioma in Kennedy's left parietal lobe of the brain. The statement also added that Kennedy "remains in good spirits and full of energy". Read more about Ted Kennedy...
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How mean spirited of FoxNews to jump on that story with the “inoperable” comment. I wish the senator and his family well. They have their hands full more than ever.
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This explains his endorsement of Obama
The links to brain tumour symptoms and brain tumour causes are false. They do not respond to these questions. This is pretty pathetic. This is group of very serious illnesses. To be diagnosed with a serious brain tumour makes people desperate, despairing and sometimes, suicidal - and not just the sufferer, but his or her family. If you are going to provide a service of ‘Guide’ on this subject, (and I confront About.com, not the particular Guide), do so in a responsible manner. In fact, doctors do not know what causes brain cancers. They do have chemotherapy treatment whose purpose is to prevent the DNA in gliomal (brain) cells from instructing the cells to reproduce and radiotherapy for brain cancers today is such that it pinpoints the exact tumour which reduces to zilch, damage to other parts of the brain. Then there is spiritual therapy. Read Deepak Chopra’s ‘Quantum Healing’ for example. There is much more reason for hope in respect of brain tumours and other cancers, than despair.
This explains his endorsement of Obama
Comment by Eddie deRoulet — May 21, 2008 @ 2:39 pm
Eddie, you are sicker than Mr Kennedy for this remark (and I’m no friend of Mr K).
Regardless of all of the above comments.
I esp like Ann Isik as she’s obviously a “medically” informed individual.
I also agree with the comment by Eddie deRoulet as when he did endorse Obama I thought for sure the world was “going to hell”; without even a hand basket to hold.
Regardless this is a sad day for America and the Kennedy Family Dynasty. But none of us can live forever but lets at least hope, regardless of the party nomination; that the Dems will win this years election!
My wife had this problem. Two surgeries & 33 weeks of Radiation. She lived 8 months after
discovery. She was alert right up to her passing and suffered only headaches.The tumor affected her ability to eat so we fed her the last three months through a tube. She passed at home very peacefully. God Bless