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CBS News Logo CBS News. Ted Kennedy Has Malignant Brain Tumor. Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., Thursday, Dec. 20, 2001, during a Washington news conference in the Capitol. Doctors say Sen. Edward Kennedy has brain tumor, condition discovered after he had seizure.
But despite his access to the best medical treatment available, Kennedy lost the fight of his life just 15 months after his diagnosis. Kennedy and others unlucky enough to learn they have glioblastoma receive a grim prognosis: about a year or a little more is the average life expectancy. The outlook hasnât changed all that much in the last 40 years, according to Dr. Eugene S. Flamm, chairman of neurosurgery at Montefiore Medical Center.