Patrick Kennedy says his family defies medical odds
May 27th, 2008
The Democratic congressman’s sister, Kara Kennedy, beat inoperable lung cancer. His mother, Joan B. Kennedy, was treated for breast cancer in 2005. His brother, Edward Kennedy Jr., lost a leg to bone cancer in 1973 when he was 12 years old. Even Patrick Kennedy himself had a brush with mortality when he had a noncancerous tumor removed from his spine in 1988.