Golf Great Ballesteros Launches Cancer Foundation

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Jun. 25, 2009

MADRID (AP) -- Golf great Seve Ballesteros has made his first appearance before the press since undergoing surgery on a brain tumor and has launched a foundation to help fight cancer.

Ballesteros says he is nearly recovered

PEDRENA, Spain, May 6 (UPI) -- Golf great Seve Ballesteros says he is 90 percent recovered after four operations on a cancerous brain tumor.

Ballesteros leaves hospital

MADRID, Dec. 9 (UPI) -- Seve Ballesteros, who has undergone four brain operations for a brain tumor in recent weeks, was released Tuesday from La Paz Hospital in Spain.

Golf's Ballesteros improving post surgery

MADRID, Oct. 30 (UPI) -- Spanish golfer Seve Ballesteros appears to be on the mend following his latest brain cancer surgery, doctors say.

Third brain surgery for Ballestros

MADRID, Oct. 24 (UPI) -- Retired professional golf legend Seve Ballestros has undergone a third surgery on a cancerous brain tumor.

Ballesteros faces additional brain surgery

BARCELONA, Spain, Oct. 23 (UPI) -- Hall of Fame golfer Seve Ballesteros faces additional surgery after tests indicated a brain tumor he had removed was cancerous.

Seve Ballesteros suffers complications

MADRID, Oct. 16 (UPI) -- Spanish doctors treating Seve Ballesteros said they needed to relieve pressure building on the hall of fame golfer's brain following surgery for a brain tumor.

Ballesteros has surgery for brain tumor

MADRID, Oct. 15 (UPI) -- Seve Ballesteros, who won five major golf championships, was listed in stable condition Wednesday at a Spanish hospital after surgery for a brain tumor.

Ballesteros says he has brain tumor

MADRID, Oct. 12 (UPI) -- Golf star Seve Ballesteros, who won five major titles and dozens of others worldwide, said Sunday doctors at a Madrid hospital found a tumor in his brain.

Call for routine brain tumor scans

NEW YORK, Jan. 19 (UPI) -- MRI scans that screen for brain tumors should become a routine part of U.S. medical care, an advocate said Friday in New York.