A grim diagnosis: Kennedy's brain cancer is worst kind

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Sen. Edward M. Kennedy D-Mass. smiles as he sit with his daughter Kara Kennedy in a family room at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston Tuesday afternoon May 20 2008. Kennedy has been diagnosed with a brain tumor. (AP PhotoStephan Savoia)
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., smiles as he sit with his daughter Kara Kennedy in a family room at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Tuesday afternoon, May 20, 2008. Kennedy has been diagnosed with a brain tumor. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)

(AP) -- A malignant glioma - the diagnosis doctors gave Sen. Edward M. Kennedy - is the worst kind of brain cancer. Malignant gliomas strike almost 9,000 Americans a year. Survival statistics are grim - few live three years and for the worst subtype, half die within a year.


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