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Golf Great Ballesteros Launches Cancer Foundation

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.
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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.

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

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

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.

Seve Ballesteros out of British Open

SURREY, England, June 30 (UPI) -- Three-time winner Seve Ballesteros has withdrawn from the British Open golf tournament.
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Lori Anne Madison, 6, competes in Scripps National Spelling Bee
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Lori Anne Madison, 6, of Woodbridge, Virginia, spells out the letters in her word as she competes during the opening round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, May 30, 2012, in National Harbor, Maryland. Madison, the youngest known qualifier in the history of the contest, correctly spelled the word "dirigible*", a lighter-than-air aircraft, to advance. UPI/Mike Theiler