Ted Kennedy is more important than you!

As we all know Ted Kennedy has brain cancer and now he's got the finest doctors in the country working on his surgery. Big shock there. MSNBC.com reports.

Kennedy said he selected a team of neuro-oncologists from Boston’s Massachusetts General Hospital and Duke University Medical Center.

The hospital at Duke is on the north side of the campus of the elite private college in Durham, about 30 minutes west of the state capital in Raleigh. The brain tumor research center at Duke is conducting several clinical trials in malignant glioma.

Aside from several television trucks parked outside, there was little sign that a notable patient was inside.

Friedman is “one of the thought leaders” and a giant in the field of neuro-oncology, said Dr. Otis Brawley, chief medical officer of the American Cancer Society, speaking from Chicago, where more than 30,000 cancer specialists are attending an American Society of Clinical Oncology conference.

Friedman is chief of the division of neurosurgery in the surgical department at Duke and also co-director of the neuro-oncology department there. His clinical interests are brain tumors, skull-based tumors, peripheral nerve surgery, pituitary tumors and cerebrovascular disaster, according to his resume on the medical center’s Web site.

After his treatment, Kennedy said, “I look forward to returning to the United States Senate and to doing everything I can to help elect Barack Obama as our next president.” Kennedy has endorsed Obama, the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination.

Kennedy was hospitalized May 17 at Massachusetts General Hospital after undergoing a seizure at his home on Cape Cod. Doctors later announced that he had a malignant glioma in his left parietal lobe, a brain region that governs sensation but also plays some role in movement and language. A malignant glioma is one of the worst kinds of brain cancer, and malignant gliomas are diagnosed in about 9,000 Americans a year.

Maybe I'm just in a bad mood today but you got to love the way that the dude who invented "scuba driving" is getting such top notch care. Of all the people in the United States who have brain cancer this guy gets the best doctors to try to save his live. Are you fucking kidding me???? You know Ted, if there is an afterlife there's a woman out there at the bottom of a lake who got cheated out of her life who I'm sure would love to talk to you.