The good news is that it seems to be treatable. The bad news is that there's no guarantee that treatment will succeed.
Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy has a malignant brain tumor, his doctors said on Tuesday.
Kennedy has a glioma and will require chemotherapy and radiation therapy, neurologist Dr. Lee Schwamm of Massachusetts General Hospital, and Dr. Larry Ronan, a primary physician there, said in a statement.
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UPDATE: Huffington Post has a great piece titled
Brain Tumors: Everything You Need To Know, which is -- not surprisingly -- everything you need to know.
