Specter S Cancer Battle
Specter, 78, a former prosecutor and a moderate who has rankled some of his fellow Republicans with his support of stem-cell research and his opposition to President Bill Clinton’s impeachment and the recent troop influx in Iraq, had undergone two brain tumor operations and double-bypass heart surgery with multiple complications in the years before his cancer diagnosis. A tested survivor, his first public statement after learning he had cancer was simple and assured: “I’m going to beat this, too....