Senator Kennedy has brain cancer

It is being reported today that Senator Ted Kennedy has been diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor, after collapsing the other day with a seizure.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080520/ap_on_go_co/kennedy

Mod-bloggers who know me in real life may be aware that my father died of the same kind of malady. While the exact kind of cancer that the Senator is suffering from has not yet been determined, it is the same general classification. The good news for the Senator from our experience is that my father lived a long time after his first diagnosis - he was first diagnosed when I was in 4th grade and lived to see me enter college. The bad news is that it did eventually take his life - when I was a sophomore in college.

My prayers are with Senator Kennedy and his family today.

Senator Kennedy Has a Brain Tumor

The doctors for Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy have announced that he has a malignant brain tumor and they believe this is why he had a seizure last week. Our father had a brain tumor and lived another 10 years after his first surgery, so Senator Kennedy may yet live quite a bit longer depending on the type and aggressiveness of his type of tumor. Even those of us on the political Right wish him many more happy years on this earth.