After a long three and a half hour brain surgery, Senator Edward Kennedy, age 76 years, was resting quietly in his hospital bed at Duke University in Durham North Carolina.
Senator Kennedy faces a long treatment schedule of radiation and chemotherapy as a follow up to the brain surgery.
Doctors are calling the surgery a success, and the majority of the tumor appears to have been successfully removed, but Doctors did not provide specific details of how much exactly had been removed or other details.
The type of brain tumor that the Senator is dealing with is a malignant glioma. Many times brain tumors and cancer of the brain is considered a grim and often fatal condition, but the specific type of tumor has been also responsive to treatment, so the prognosis for Senator Kennedy may be more positive than it seems.
While the exact details are not known, doctors are cautiously optimistic, partly because the tumor was caught in earlier stages than some types of cancer.
It is a well known fact that for long term survivor-bility, the earlier that a cancerous tumor or growth is discovered and treated, the better the chances that the patient will make a full recovery.
Representatives for the Senator merely stated he was resting quietly, and the doctors who performed the surgery stated that they felt the surgery was overall successful. No other details were forthcoming, and the world watches anxiously for the condition of the Senior Senator from Massachusetts.