Article: Ted Kennedy's Expanded Cancer Arsenal.

Byline: Bernadine Healy M.D.

Unlike a decade ago, chemotherapy is now a powerful weapon against brain tumors

Sen. Ted Kennedy weathered surgery to remove a good hunk of a malignant glioma in the left side of his brain on June 2 at Duke University Medical Center. His doctors tell us that after he heals a bit, he will embark on treatment combining radiation and chemotherapy. Surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy are common prescriptions for the million and a half people who find they have cancer each year. But in the small world of brain cancer--fewer than 20,000 people face this diagnosis yearly--using chemotherapy as a frontline treatment along with surgery and ...

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