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 Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 6:26 pm Post subject: Senator Kennedy Has Malignant Brain Tumor |
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| Quote: | May 20, 2008
Senator Kennedy Has Malignant Brain Tumor
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 2:08 p.m. ET
BOSTON (AP) -- A cancerous brain tumor caused the seizure Sen. Edward M. Kennedy suffered over the weekend, doctors said Tuesday in a grim diagnosis for one of American politics' most enduring figures.
The Massachusetts Democrat as a malignant glioma in the left parietal-lobe, according to doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital, where Kennedy, 76, has been undergoing tests since Saturday after having a seizure at his Cape Cod home.
The usual course of treatment includes combinations of radiation and chemotherapy, but Kennedy's treatment will be decided after more tests.
''He has had no further seizures, remains in good overall condition, and is up and walking around the hospital,'' said a joint statement issued by Dr. Lee Schwamm, vice chairman of the Department of Neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital and Dr. Larry Ronan, Kennedy's primary care physician.
The doctors said Kennedy will remain in the hospital ''for the next couple of days according to routine protocol.''
''He remains in good spirits and full of energy,'' they said.
Kennedy's wife and children have been with him each day since he was hospitalized. Senator Kennedy's son, Rep. Patrick Kennedy, D-R.I., plans to stay at the hospital for the time being.
''Obviously it's tough news for any son to hear,'' said spokeswoman Robin Costello. ''He's comforted by the fact that his dad is such a fighter, and if anyone can get through something as challenging as this, it would be his father. So he's optimistic, he's hopeful, but obviously he's concerned.''
President Bush was notified by his staff of Kennedy's diagnosis at 1:20 p.m.
''He said he was deeply saddened and would keep Sen. Kennedy in his prayers,'' spokeswoman Dana Perino said.
Malignant gliomas are a type of brain cancer diagnosed in about 9,000 Americans a year -- and the most common type among adults. It's a starting diagnosis: How well patients fare depends on what specific tumor type is determined by further testing.
Average survival can range from less than a year for very advanced and aggressive types -- such as glioblastomas -- or to about five years for different types that are slower growing.
Surgery can be an option for some types, especially to reduce symptoms as a tumor enlarges and puts pressure on the rest of the brain. Many gliomas infiltrate normal brain tissue instead of forming a solid mass, making it hard to remove much of the tumor.
Senate Democratic and Republican leaders both interrupted their parties' regularly scheduled party luncheons to announce the news about Kennedy. Republicans bowed their heads and said a prayer. Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., told colleagues that Kennedy is optimistic.
''I'm having a hard time remembering a day in my 34 years here I've felt this sadly,'' said Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt.
''We just hope for the best,'' said Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J. ''Ted Kennedy makes the Senate the place that it is and has for so many years.''
''I'm really sad. He's the one politician who brings tears to my eyes when he speaks,'' former Sen. Bob Kerrey, D-Neb., said when told in a Senate hallway about Kennedy's condition.
''I am so deeply saddened I have lost the words,'' Sen. John Warner, R-Va., said in a Senate hallway. Warner said he and Kennedy had been friends for 40 years. Both served on the Senate Armed Services Committee together.
Kennedy, the second-longest serving member of the Senate and a dominant figure in national Democratic Party politics, was elected in 1962, filling out the term won by his brother, John F. Kennedy.
Kennedy eldest brother, Joseph, was killed in a World War II airplane crash. President John Kennedy was assassinated in 1963 and his brother Robert was assassinated in 1968.
Kennedy is active for his age, maintaining an aggressive schedule on Capitol Hill and across Massachusetts. He has made several campaign appearances for the Illinois senator in February, and most recently another in April.
Kennedy, the senior senator from Massachusetts and the Senate's second-longest serving member, was re-elected in 2006 and is not up for election again until 2012.
Were he to resign or die in office, state law requires a special election for the seat no sooner than 145 days and no later than 160 days after the vacancy occurs.
The law was changed in 2004, when Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts became the Democratic presidential nominee and Republican Mitt Romney was the state's governor. Prior to the change, the governor would have appointed a replacement who would have served until the next general election.
That would created the opportunity to install a fellow Republican in office, something lawmakers in the vastly Democratic state wanted to avoid.
Among the potential candidates for a Senate vacancy would be Democrats Martha Coakley, the state's attorney general; Rep. Edward J. Markey, former U.S. Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy II and Kennedy's wife, Vicki.
Among the potential Republican candidates could be Romney or former Lt. Gov. Kerry Healey.
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AP reporter Lauran Neergaard in Washington contributed to this report. |
this really hit me. given his age, i suspect whatever the diagnosis, he will probably resign. i was looking forward to a democratic congress and senate, and the thing kennedy might get accomplished in them.
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Mike Savage, the third most listened to radio commentator in the world (behind Limbaugh and Hannity) is apparently not above mocking Kennedy's tumor problem.
I kind of like how Kennedy, no matter how terrible the truth about him could ever be, is forever shielded by the fact that his enemies always manage to act worse in practice. |
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| Sam wrote: | | I kind of like how Kennedy, no matter how terrible the truth about him could ever be, is forever shielded by the fact that his enemies always manage to act worse in practice. |
it definitely says some very deep shit about this country, I tell you.
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| Sam wrote: | | Mike Savage, the third most listened to radio commentator in the world (behind Limbaugh and Hannity) is apparently not above mocking Kennedy's tumor problem. |
I was treated to a summary of that by my Rush-loving coworker today. Apparently since Savage is a doctor, he could "look back and see the signs of it" in Kennedy's past. Also, no joke, liberals like Kennedy ruined this country.
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it's sad to realize small-minded, nasty people like this are so popular.
when did we get to be so mean-spirited?
so what was savage's take? liberalism is a symptom of brain cancer?
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Obviously one would have to be crazy to be a liberal. In fact, Savage really does call "Liberalism" a mental disorder all the fucking time. I think he believes it.
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| I suppose, then, that Savage's take on liberalism isn't that far off from his take on homosexuality. Both are deviant mental illnesses he'd rather not have in his America. |
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If the forces of civility and civic responsibiliy ever stage a coup, Michael Savage will be first against the wall. He's a small minded gas bag of the most vile sort.
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| Posted: Fri May 23, 2008 9:01 pm Post subject: |
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i hate to wish a thing like brain cancer on anyone, but clearly, he needs to experience it.
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| mouse wrote: | | i hate to wish a thing like brain cancer on anyone, but clearly, he needs to experience it. |
lol mabe he is thas y hes crazie lol
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I care too much about american politics.
And I care in the wrong way.
For instance, I'm all too ready to buy into the Obama = JFK thing, despite it being bullshit on several levels (not least of which is that JFK was, in many ways, not that great.)
But I've followed Teddy Kennedy since I was thirteen, and admire him greatly. As such I am made unhappy by his illness, and more unhappy by the fact that I regularly read that pinnacle of disgusting conservatism, conservapedia, which crowingly predicts death for him in as little as a year.
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Senator Kennedy is quite old, has worked hard for a very long time, and is not in the greatest of shape, so something like this was almost inevitable. I hope he recovers and remains comfortable for the rest of his life. But I'm not a fan of his. Residents of the state he has helped shape over the last half century steadily flee into New Hampshire for our lower taxes and higher property values, and then try to legislate this state into a new Massachusetts by increasing taxes and bringing in businesses and industries which lower property values and make scenic wilderness more and more rare.
I'm not sure how well known it is outside of New England, but Senator Kennedy was among a number of local residents who opposed the construction of a wind farm in Nantucket Sound. The main objections seem to be that the turbines would be an eyesore that would drop property values and lessen tourism in the area.  |
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| Teh Digital Dragon wrote: | | I'm all too ready to buy into the Obama = JFK thing, despite it being bullshit on several levels (not least of which is that JFK was, in many ways, not that great.) |
That depends on what aspect of JFK you talk about. As a President, he did not accomplish many things (though the diffusion of the Cuban Missile Crisis must rank high among the great moments in US History). But he did inspire millions of people to take up civil service and to work for the common good of the country. That's the sort of thing that this country has not had for- well, for my lifetime. That's the sort of this that I get the feeling might change. The feeling may just be a mirage, but I'd rather chase an illusion than do nothing right now.
I don't mean to get too far away from Ted Kennedy. It's, of course, tragic. He's among my favorite Senators (growing up with an Irish family does that for you). Even if he wasn't, no one deserves this kind of prognosis.
And by the way, brain cancer is not inevitable.
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| Mizike wrote: | | And by the way, brain cancer is not inevitable. |
No shit, moron. Where did I say it was? Not surprisingly, you're trying to put words in my mouth again. |
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| Mindslicer wrote: | | Mizike wrote: | | And by the way, brain cancer is not inevitable. |
No shit, moron. Where did I say it was? Not surprisingly, you're trying to put words in my mouth again. |
Hey, cock-jockey, no need to go straight to militant insult mode. Calm the hell down. Being a little prick isn't ever going to win you support for anything, ever.
Now everyone go back to discussing the actual topic; I will refrain as I haven't taken time enough to research the topic in order to formulate an opinion beyond "Brain cancer sucks =[". Maybe later.
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