Dr. Donald F. Gleason dies at 88; pathologist devised prostate cancer rating scale
Wednesday, January 21, 2009 - 22:42
in Health & Medicine
Dr. Donald F. Gleason, the Minnesota pathologist who developed the Gleason score that is now used almost universally in the U.S. to predict the likely outcome of prostate cancer, died Dec. 28 of a heart attack at his home in Edina, Minn. He was 88.