A grim diagnosis: Kennedy's brain cancer is worst kind
Tuesday, May 20, 2008 - 16:56
in Health & Medicine
WASHINGTON (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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