Eleanor Mondale: My cancer's back

MINNEAPOLIS, Feb. 28 (UPI) -- Eleanor Mondale, the daughter of former U.S. Vice President Walter Mondale, Thursday said she was shocked to learn her brain cancer had returned.

During her show on WCCO-AM, Minneapolis, Eleanor Mondale, 48, said she would be undergoing surgery next Wednesday with the same doctors who removed her original tumor in 2005. This one, however, is much smaller.

"You don't want to sit around and wait for it to grow," the St. Paul Pioneer Press quoted her as saying. "When I found out I had cancer last time, the tumor was so big it was throwing me into seizures and that's how we found it. This one, I don't have any symptoms. I don't feel bad. I just have cancer in my brain."

Mondale said the mass turned up on an MRI in January in the same general area of her original tumor.