Senator Edward Kennedy has Brain Cancer

The doctors today released the cause of Senator Kennedy’s seizure. The news is bad.

“Malignant gliomas are a type of brain cancer diagnosed in about 9,000 Americans a year — and the most common type among adults. It's a starting diagnosis: How well patients fare depends on what specific tumor type is determined by further testing.Average survival can range from less than a year for very advanced and aggressive types — such as glioblastomas — or to about five years for different types that are slower growing.”

As a cancer survier I know that with any cancer diagnose a major factor for survival is the patient’s outlook on life. Senator Kennedy is not the type to just give up and die from lack of trying to survive. He also has a strong family support system which will assist him in the coming months and or years of life.