Thursday, May 22, 2008

No cure for malignant glioma like Kennedy has

"Doctors are not mincing words about the kind of brain tumor diagnosed in Sen. Edward Kennedy.
'Cure is out of the question,' said Dr. John Adler Jr., professor of neurosurgery at the Stanford University School of Medicine.
Kennedy is reported to have a malignant glioma in the left parietal lobe of his brain - a diagnosis that for most patients means a cancerous brain tumor that will kill them, usually within a year. 'It is almost certainly a fatal condition,' Adler said.
Exceptions abound in medicine, and Adler stressed that doctors like him who have only heard news reports of Kennedy's condition have no way of knowing how perilous his condition is. However, gliomas are the most common type of brain tumor in adults, and two-thirds of those diagnosed with malignant brain tumors of any kind will die of them.
About 9,000 people are diagnosed with malignant gliomas in the United States each year. The odds of survival go down with age. Kennedy is 76."

of the West finals 89-85 on Wednesday. How? Let's just say the MVP "managed" to find a way

No comments: