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

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A grim diagnosis: Kennedy's brain cancer is worst kind (AP) - 05-21-2008, 12:21 AM

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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