As I said before, I wish the Senator a complete recovery. I’m not quite ready to give up the comic relief.
That said...it says something about the observational powers of Massachusetts physicians that it took them the better part of eight decades to find a part of Ted that was malignant.
That sounds like the inverse of the comment made when Randolph Churchill was operated on for a tumor which was removed. The tumor was benign, and the popular joke was that the surgeons had removed the only part of Randolph that wasn't malignant.(Winston's only son was widely hated for a number of good reasons.)