Ted Kennedy didn't give up, why should my Dad?

He shouldn't...hope is alive, believing in it doesn't mean you are unable to look at the facts, living in dream world, hiding from it all, etc.

It means that you're a fighter. And honestly, what better fight could there be than one that works towards keeping this man, Odee Lenderink, around for as long as possible...

Ted Kennedy's cancer 'worst kind'
WASHINGTON - A malignant glioma — the diagnosis doctors gave Sen. Edward M. Kennedy — is the worst kind of brain cancer. Malignant gliomas strike almost 9,000 Americans a year. Survival statistics are grim — few live three years and for the worst subtype, half die within a year.

Who lasts longer — and some do — depends on exactly what form of glioma someone has, whether surgeons can cut most of it out, age and some other medical details.

Kennedy's doctors didn't mention surgery, suggesting that may not be a possibility for him.

"As a general rule, at 76, without the ability to do a surgical resection, as kind of a ballpark figure you're probably looking at a survival of less than a year," said Dr. Keith Black, chairman of neurosurgery at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.......