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Guest host: Katty Kay
Senator Edward Kennedy is one of approximately twenty thousand Americans diagnosed with some form of brain cancer every year. Medical experts describe his diagnosis… other types of brain tumors… and various treatment options…
Dr. Michael Vogelbaum, neurosurgeon and associate director of Cleveland Clinic's Brain Tumor and Neuro-Oncology Center
Jane Taylor, five-year survivor of stage 4 brain tumor (gliomablastoma multiforme)
Dr. Deepa Subramaniam, Director of the Brain Tumor Center at Georgetown University Hospital.
Dr. Howard Fine, chief of the Neuro-Oncology Branch at the National Cancer Institute and National Institute on Neurological Discorders and Stroke at National Institutes of Health
Cord Schlobohm, a member of the Board of Directors of the Brain Tumor Society and involved in advocacy and increasing awareness about the disease
Paul Moore, Jr. was the Episcopal Bishop of New York for twenty years and one of last century's most prominent liberal social activists. In a new memoir, his daughter describes coming of age in a famous family and how her father's secret bisexuality shaped his life and her own.
Honor Moore, the author of three poetry collections and a biography "The White Blackbird. She teaches at the New School and Columbia University.