Sen. Edward Kennedy is expected to be released from the hospital a week after undergoing surgery in North Carolina for brain cancer.

Rep. Patrick Kennedy tells The Providence Journal that his father will be released Monday from Duke University Medical Center and will head home to Hyannis Port on Cape Cod.

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By Amanda Gardner
EmpowHer's HealthDay Reporter

MONDAY, June 2 (HealthDay News) -- An experimental cancer vaccine is showing promise against the same general type of brain tumor diagnosed in Sen. Edward Kennedy, researchers are reporting.

The vaccine, when given with chemotherapy, more than doubled progression-free survival in patients with glioblastoma multiforme tumors. Kennedy was diagnosed last month with a malignant glioma, a class of brain tumor that includes glioblastoma, and underwent surgery Monday for the tumor.

WASHINGTON — The kind of cancer that Sen. Edward Kennedy is fighting is a common, usually incurable form of brain tumor that is very difficult to treat, experts said Tuesday.

About 10,000 cases are diagnosed each year in the U.S., and only about half of those patients survive one year, experts said. After two years, perhaps 25 percent are still alive.

"In general, it's a very grim kind of prognosis," said Robert Laureno, chief of neurology at Washington Hospital Center. "It's a bad kind of tumor."
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MONDAY, April 28 (HealthDay News) -- U.S. researchers have identified new biomarkers that may help enhance detection of new and recurrent primary and metastatic brain tumors, something that could help improve patient outcomes.