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Doctors Say Ted Kennedy Has Brain Tumor

Doctors said Tuesday that tests show Sen. Ted Kennedy has a malignant brain tumor. A brain specialist at Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital, where the 76-year-old Kennedy has been resting since a seizure over the weekend, said the senator has a tumor known as a glioma in his left parietal lobe.

Joe Neel, NPR's deputy senior supervising editor, gives an update on Kennedy's condition.

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