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Kennedy has a brain tumor: doctors

Veteran US Senator Edward Kennedy has a malignant brain tumor, doctors treating him at a Boston hospital said Tuesday.

Kennedy, the only surviving brother of assassinated US president John F. Kennedy, was admitted to hospital after suffering a seizure on Saturday.

"Preliminary results from a biopsy of the brain identified the cause of the seizure as a malignant glioma in the left parietal lobe," physicians Lee Schwamm and Larry Ronan said in a statement.

The normal course of treatment for such a condition is radiation and chemotherapy, the doctors said.

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Veteran US Senator Edward Kennedy, pictured in April 2008, has a malignant brain tumor, doctors treating him at a Boston hospital said Tuesday.

© 2007 AFP Paul J. Richards

 

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