The brain surgery Sen. Edward Kennedy underwent Monday was not intended to cure the senator’s malignant brain tumor, area doctors said.

“It won’t affect a cure of the tumor — it will slow it down and allow the radiation and the chemotherapy to be more affective,” said Dr. Anthony Caputy, chairman of the Department of Neurological Surgery at George Washington University Hospital.

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