Golf legend Seve Ballesteros is in a serious condition and is to undergo a third round of brain surgery.
Golf legend Seve Ballesteros is in a serious condition and is to undergo a third round of brain surgery
The Madrid hospital where the Spanish golf star is being treated confirmed that the operation would go ahead to try to remove the rest of his brain tumour, the Sky News reported.
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Brain tumors are the abnormal growth of brain cells that may be benign or metastatic. Brain tumors account for about 2.4% of all the tumor diagnosesandare most challenging due to their critically delicate location.
He said the tumour was in a particularly difficult area for surgeons to reach, adding: "It is located in an area that requires a very thorough approach of great complexity."
Doctors said the 51-year-old is suffering from an oligoastrocytoma - a tumour that affects two types of brain cell and spreads diffusely inside the brain cavity.
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He said it was difficult to say how long he might survive without knowing more about the tumour, which will have been classified from one to four on a grade of seriousness.
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"I think it's going to be at least a three because the mixed tumours usually are," he added. "They generally develop into a high grade tumour from which a patient will eventually die. This is not good. The likelihood is that he will die from the tumour at some stage."
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Spanish Golfer Seve Ballesteros Suffering from Brain Tumour
Fifty-one-year-old Spanish golfer Seve Ballesteros is reported to be suffering from brain tumour.
Fifty-one-year-old Spanish golfer Seve Ballesteros is reported to be suffering from brain tumour.
He was admitted to hospital and the brain tumour diagnosed on October 6, after he collapsed and briefly lost consciousness at Madrid airport.
The first operation was followed by a second round of surgery to ease a build-up of fluid on his brain after he took a turn for the worse.
Ballesteros won the British Open in 1979, 1984 and 1988 and became the first European to win the Augusta Masters in 1980, a title he repeated in 1983.
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