NEW YORK — A representative for Mary Tyler Moore said Thursday that the veteran sitcom star has gone in to a facility for surgery to remove a benign tumor on the lining of her brain.
Spokeswoman Alla Plotkin said Moore’s doctors recommended the elective procedure after monitoring the tumor “for years.” Plotkin would not specify whether the surgery had already taken place or how Moore, 74, was doing.
The procedure was to remove a meningioma, a slow-growing tumor in the membranes that cover the brain. Meningiomas usually occur in older adults and are mostly benign.
Moore gained stardom as a modern suburban housewife on the 1960s comedy “The Dick Van Dyke Show,” then went on to headline her own successful series as a single woman pursuing a career.
