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Donald Floyd Gleason
Donald Floyd GleasonBorn 20 November 1920
Spencer, IowaDied 28 December 2008 (aged 88)Nationality United States Fields pathologist Known for Gleason score Donald Floyd Gleason (20 November 1920 – 28 December 2008) was an American pathologist known for his test, the Gleason score, a measure of malignancy of the prostate cancer.
References
- Filosa, Alessandra; Fabiani Andrea (Apr. 2009). "Dr. Donald Floyd Gleason's historic, immense contribution to urologic pathology" (in eng). Anal. Quant. Cytol. Histol. (United States) 31 (2): 123–4. ISSN 0884-6812. PMID 19402390.
- Phillips, John L; Sinha Akhouri A (Sep. 2009). "Patterns, art, and context: Donald Floyd Gleason and the development of the Gleason grading system" (in eng). Urology (United States) 74 (3): 497–503. doi:10.1016/j.urology.2009.01.012. PMID 19376571.
- Gleason, Donald F; Mellinger George T, (Feb. 2002). "Prediction of prognosis for prostatic adenocarcinoma by combined histological grading and clinical staging. 1974" (in eng). Journal of Urology (United States) 167 (2 Pt 2): 953–8; discussion 959. doi:10.1016/S0022-5347(02)80309-3. ISSN 0022-5347. PMID 11905924.
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