Doctors treating Ted Kennedy have diagnosed the cause of his seizures. This morning, Ted Kennedy was diagnosed as having a malignant brain tumor. Here’s what’s being reported:

U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy has a malignant brain tumor, doctors treating him at Massachusetts General Hospital said Tuesday. Kennedy, 76, was hospitalized Saturday morning after suffering a seizure at his family’s compound at Hyannisport, Massachusetts.

“Preliminary results from a biopsy of the brain identified the cause of the seizure as a malignant glioma in the left parietal lobe,” according to a statement from the doctors treating the senator.

Malignant glioma is the most common primary brain tumor, accounting for more than half of the 18,000 primary malignant brain tumors diagnosed each year in the United States, according to the National Cancer Institute.

I’m not surprised with this diagnosis because I knew it was a definite possibility. I don’t say that with any glee or satisfaction. It’s just that I realized that this was a possibility.

Now isn’t the time for politics. Rather, it’s a time for us to keep Sen. Kennedy and his family in our prayers.

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