Neurologist: Surgery alone will not cure Kennedy tumor

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Neurologist: Surgery alone will not cure Kennedy tumor

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(NECN: Boston) - While Sen. Edward Kennedy's family comes to grips with news he has a brain tumor, a neurologist from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center says the senator will face an uphill fight.

"Surgery alone... will not cure this cancer," said Dr. Michael Biber of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in an interview with R.D. Sahl. Biber, who is not affailiated with Kennedy's treatment team, said Kennedy's cancer will likely be treated with a combination of chemotherapy and radiation, with surgery a possibility depending on the tumor's location in the senator's left parietal lobe.

But Biber notes that gliomas are impossible to eradicate with surgery, which limits the long-term prognosis for Sen. Kennedy.

Links to resources on gliomas:

Wikipedia entry on gliomas

Mayo Clinic information on gliomas

Mass General Hospital Cancer Center information on adult cancers

National Institutes of Health on brain cancers