Specter Upbeat After Tumor Treatment

Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) brushed off fears he cannot do his job after undergoing his second treatment for a brain tumor in three years. Specter was in a buoyant mood after an 80-minute treatment for a benign tumor. Doctors fired beams of radiation at the coat-button-sized tumor, which had grown from cells left over from Specter’s 1993 brain surgery, when a 2-inch tumor was removed. “I feel fine,” Specter, 66, said four hours after the treatment. His doctor said the success rate for treating such tumors is 98%.