Ted Kennedy's Daughter Dies At 51

Six years after she was deemed cancer-free, Kara Kennedy accepted the Presidential Medal of Freedom on behalf of her father, just weeks before Sen. Edward Kennedy died battling a brain tumor.

However, her own lung cancer treatment -- surgery and grueling chemotherapy and radiation -- left her physically weakened, her brother Patrick Kennedy said. She died Friday at age 51 after her daily workout at a Washington health club.

"Her heart gave out," said Patrick Kennedy, a former congressman from Rhode Island. "She's with dad." In a telephone interview from her home in Boston on Saturday Joan Bennett Kennedy said she and her daughter were "best friends" who liked to take long swims together and walks on the beach. She said her daughter had fully recovered from her cancer and didn't have any lingering health issues. "She was very healthy. That's why this is such a shock," Joan Kennedy said.

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