NATION : Atwater’s Tumor Treated Again
Republican Party chief Lee Atwater was admitted to a New York hospital today for additional treatment designed to “minimize the potential aggressiveness” of a non-malignant tumor on the right side of his brain.
Atwater’s top deputy at the Republican National Committee, Mary Matalin, said in a statement that Atwater entered New York’s Montefiore Medical Center for a procedure known as an interstitial radiation implantation. The procedure involves inserting a radioactive isotope into the tumor. Atwater has been hospitalized twice for treatment in the past month.
The statement said the procedure involves local anesthesia and that the isotope would be implanted for five days.
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