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(39,181 posts) Wed Aug 21, 2013, 11:43 AM Aug 2013

Beau Biden Has Mass in Brain [View all]

Source: NBC

Biden, 44, spent the night at a the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas for tests to rule out cancer.

NBC10 News medical correspondent Nancy Snyderman said that sources familiar with Biden's condition said that a biopsy would be conducted and that it could take days for the pathology to be studied under a microscope.

A mass isn't necessarily cancerous and can be anything ranging from an aneurysm to a hemorrhage to something else.

Read more: http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Beau-Biden-Hospitalized-Undergoes-Tests-220287801.html

Sending positive thoughts to Beau and the Biden family.

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Beau Biden Has Mass in Brain [View all] hack89 Aug 2013 OP

n/t JustAnotherGen Aug 2013 #1

Family history with that LordGlenconner Aug 2013 #2

Here you go... SkyDaddy7 Aug 2013 #38

Oh, man. Me, too. MotherPetrie Aug 2013 #3

sounds familiar PatrynXX Aug 2013 #9

Oh, no! Such a nice, young man. I pray it is benign. eom Frustratedlady Aug 2013 #4

The Bidens don't deserve this. They've been through enough. sinkingfeeling Aug 2013 #5

Oh. Shit. Please let it not be a gioblastoma. MADem Aug 2013 #6

I thought the same thing DFW Aug 2013 #14

His father had not one, but two, AVMs--every time I see his big smiling face, I think, damn--it is a MADem Aug 2013 #17

Not a ride I want to take DFW Aug 2013 #20

If you can buy (probably get a good price second hand), rent, or borrow from a library that MADem Aug 2013 #21

One of the best shows ever made Happyhippychick Aug 2013 #26

+1,000 !!!! nt MADem Aug 2013 #35

I used to love that show. Beacool Aug 2013 #41

Me too--it was a family event to sit and watch it! nt MADem Aug 2013 #44

I liked watching the beginning of the show and seeing what happened to the person Beacool Aug 2013 #46

I had a few favorites, too... MADem Aug 2013 #47

Yeah, there were many of them that were quite ingenious. Beacool Aug 2013 #57

Glioblastomas suck. Gormy Cuss Aug 2013 #22

I hope not too riverbendviewgal Aug 2013 #31

26? Jesus, that's just too young. I am so sorry. nt MADem Aug 2013 #36

thank you I appreciate your kind words riverbendviewgal Aug 2013 #54

I agree with you -- time flies. MADem Aug 2013 #62

I'm so sorry for your loss. Beacool Aug 2013 #42

there are no words BUT acknowledgement means alot riverbendviewgal Aug 2013 #52

Wow, you have gone through a real hard time!!!! Beacool Aug 2013 #58

I appreciate your kind words riverbendviewgal Aug 2013 #53

Of course he is, a parent will never forget a child that is gone. Beacool Aug 2013 #59

He had that "mild stroke" in 2010. I wonder if it was caused by a mass back then. LisaL Aug 2013 #7

Oh God. greatauntoftriplets Aug 2013 #8

I hope it will be something easily handled. hamsterjill Aug 2013 #10

Last night on Facebook LibertyLover Aug 2013 #11

Thank you for doing that young_at_heart Aug 2013 #15

Good for you DesertRat Aug 2013 #40

Good for you!!! Beacool Aug 2013 #43

Hoping for the best. nt alsame Aug 2013 #12

Good Luck mtasselin Aug 2013 #13

He's in the right place - TBF Aug 2013 #16

I'm glad he's at M.D. Anderson, too. kentauros Aug 2013 #30

Local story in our Chron - the VP is in town as well TBF Aug 2013 #18

Oh no. Wait Wut Aug 2013 #19

Kick and rec - get well Beau!!!! Cooley Hurd Aug 2013 #23

Oh shit. kestrel91316 Aug 2013 #24

KnR and all best wishes to Beau and all the Bidens Hekate Aug 2013 #25

Sending positive thoughts Beau's way eissa Aug 2013 #27

Prayers and positive thoughts for the Biden's gopiscrap Aug 2013 #28

shit ZRT2209 Aug 2013 #29

Lost a dear friend and wonderful boss to this Faygo Kid Aug 2013 #32

Godspeed Beau. yesphan Aug 2013 #33

Oh no ... good thoughts and prayers Peacetrain Aug 2013 #34

Brutal. SunSeeker Aug 2013 #37

Damn. I hope they can treat him successfully. n/t winter is coming Aug 2013 #39

I was hoping that it wasn't a tumor. Beacool Aug 2013 #45

"Successful procedure", goes home tomorrow PDittie Aug 2013 #48

Jesus. Arkana Aug 2013 #49

Sorry to hear this........nt Enthusiast Aug 2013 #50

Thoughts, hopes and wishes ismnotwasm Aug 2013 #51

I wish it was me rather then Beau Botany Aug 2013 #55

Don't say that. Beacool Aug 2013 #56

I am so sorry to hear that davidpdx Aug 2013 #60

I don't really pray anymore... sheshe2 Aug 2013 #61