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Mr. Kennedy’s cancer, a glioblastoma, kills almost everyone who gets it,
usually in a little over a year. Although he got the most aggressive treatment,
Mr. Kennedy lived just 15 months after his diagnosis — just about the median
survival for patients with his type of tumor
who got the radiation and chemotherapy
regimen that has become the standard of care.

“This remains just a dreadful tumor,” said Dr. Eugene S. Flamm, a
neurosurgeon at Montefiore
Medical Center in New York. Dr. Flamm, who was not involved with Mr.
Kennedy’s treatment, added that when a patient developed glioblastoma, “there is
not a hell of a lot you can do.”