ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Wednesday, August 28, 1996 TAG: 9608280056
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL PAGE: A-4 EDITION: METRO
Jan-Michael Vincent breaks neck in crash
MISSION VIEJO, Calif. - ``Airwolf'' TV star Jan-Michael Vincent broke his neck in a car crash but showed no signs of paralysis, doctors said Tuesday.
The actor's car rear-ended his girlfriend's Cadillac, spun out of control and slammed into a traffic pole Monday, and police are investigating whether the 52-year-old former TV star was drunk or on drugs.
A car mechanic told police that Vincent appeared unsteady while stopped at a gas station a few minutes before the crash.
Vincent, who played a rugged helicopter pilot on CBS' ``Airwolf'' from 1984 to 1986, was hospitalized in serious but stable condition.
- Associated Press
Early prostate surgery successful
CHICAGO - Surgery for early prostate cancer is remarkably successful, enabling the vast majority of men to live another 10 years or more, a study found. But the operation is not necessarily the best treatment for all men.
The research - the first such study to look at patients at more than one hospital - largely confirms previous findings, said Dr. Glenn S. Gerber, a University of Chicago urologist who led the study.
Rather than answering the question of which is the best method of treating the second-leading cancer killer of men, the study merely provides patients with concrete information they can use in deciding whether to undergo surgery, Gerber said.
Surgery and radiation are the most common treatments, but surgery can cause impotence and urinary incontinence, and previous research has indicated that, in elderly men with slow-growing prostate cancer, ``watchful waiting'' - or doing nothing - may be just as successful as surgery.
As a result, it's impossible to say which treatment is best without taking into account a patient's age and overall health, Gerber said.
- Associated Press
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