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Politics News Alert: Former senator Arlen Specter being treated for cancer

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Former senator Arlen Specter being treated for cancer

Tuesday, August 28, 2012 11:15:21 AM

Politics News Alert

Former Pennsylvania senator Arlen Specter is being treated for an unspecified form of cancer, his office confirmed Tuesday. He was treated previously for a brain tumor and twice for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, in 2005 and 2008.

Specter served in the Senate from 1981 to 2011. In 2009, he switched his party affiliation from Republican to Democrat.

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