Senator Edward Kennedy Returns Home After Surgery

The senator Edward “Ted” Kennedy has left Duke University Medical Center to go home to recuperate after his surgery. His progress has been well since the surgery to remove a cancerous brain tumor was done a week ago.

He was diagnosed with a malignant glioma last month after having a seizure at his home in Cape Cod. A malignant glioma is deadly and is one of the worst types of brain cancer. He went through three and a half hours of surgery last week to remove as much of the tumor as possible. Chemotherapy and radiation treatments are the next course of actions that are most likely to happen.

Senator Edward Kennedy Undergoes Surgery, Radiation, and Chemo Therapy

On Monday, Senator Edward Kennedy had 3 ½ hours of surgery done to cut out as much of his cancerous brain tumor as possible. The surgery was successful and chemotherapy and radiation will be done next to shrink whatever is left of the tumor. In the next days to come, he will most likely be given drugs to prevent brain swelling and seizures. He will also be closely watched for possible bleeding and blood clots.

The Senator was diagnosed with a malignant glioma last month, which is an often lethal brain tumor, after he suffered from a seizure at this home in Cape Cod and had to be hospitalized.

Senator Edward “Ted” Kennedy has Cancerous Brain Tumor

The senator Edward “Ted” Kennedy was diagnosed with a cancerous brain tumor on Tuesday. It is expected that he has less than a year to live. Doctors discovered the tumor while doing tests after he had a seizure this past weekend and had to be hospitalized. Doctors say that he has a malignant glioma in the left parietal lobe, which is the part of the brain that controls sensation, movement, and language.

Doctors say that he will stay in the hospital for a couple more days while they consider chemotherapy and radiation treatment. The possibility of surgery was not mentioned. Experts say that he will have three years to live at the most but it is very likely at his age of 76 that he has less than a year to live. He didn’t have any more seizures while in the hospital and was released from the hospital today.

Doctors Stop Rare Disease by Splitting Teen’s Brain in Two

In the United Kingdom, doctors split the brain of a teenage girl, named Janine Leach, in two to stop a rare brain-eating disease from spreading. The girl has a disorder called Rasmussen’s Encephalitis which could cause up to 100 seizures a day when surges of electricity in her brain could make her nervous system misfire. She went through the operation to stop the seizures. The operation involved cutting away the diseased half of her brain, but leaving still leaving it inside of her skull to prevent the increased risk of blood clots. The operation stopped the seizures but made her paralyzed on the left side of her body. The doctors say that with physical therapy she has the possibility to walk again in the future.

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