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NFL announces 2019 Pro Bowl players ... from sports page 1 Famer and eight-time Pro Bowler Pro Bowls, will serve as mentors SAY of Denver, guard QUEN - The 2019 Pro Bowl coaching day, including AFC & NFC seat - EMMITT SMITH, Pro Football for the Pro Bowl players and be TON NELSON of Indianapolis staffs will be from the losing ing sections, player red carpet Detour to the States lane Hall of Famer and eight-time Pro present on the sidelines on game - and cornerback DENZEL teams in the AFC and NFC Divi - viewing, special kid zone activi - on The Mid-South Tribune Bowler BRIAN URLACHER day. WARD of Cleveland. sional playoffs with the best reg - ties and postgame fireworks. and the Black Information and nine-time Pro Bowler DE- Twenty-nine of the players se - Twenty-nine teams had at least ular-season records. Highway. Submit news and MARCUS WARE will serve as lected to the Pro Bowl today are one player selected to the 2019 Under terms of the Collective 2019 PRO BOWL PLAYERS photos for all 50 states to: 2019 Pro Bowl Legends Cap- first-time All-Stars, including six Pro Bowl and 24 clubs had mul - Bargaining Agreement, each tains. rookies – running back tiple players chosen as All-Stars. player on the winning Pro Bowl ARIZONA (1) [email protected] Kelly (offense) and Ware (de- SAQUON BARKLEY of the The team receives $67,000, while Patrick Peterson Cornerback fense) will lead the AFC, while , punter placed a league-best seven play - each player on the losing squad MST [email protected] Smith (offense) and Urlacher MICHAEL DICKSON of Seat - ers on the Pro Bowl roster, while earns $34,000. (2) (defense) will lead the NFC. The tle, free safety DERWIN JAMES the Bears, Dallas Cow - Tickets to the game are on sale at Julio Jones MSTentertainment four Legends Captains, who of the Los Angeles Chargers, boys and New Orleans Saints led NFL.com/ProBowlOnSale. New Alex Mack @prodigy.net were collectively selected to 30 running back PHILLIP LIND - the NFC with five players se - this year, tickets will also grant lected each. fans special benefits on game - Please see sports page 3 [email protected]

BlackInfoHwy@ New study shows Black men diagnosed with prostate prodigy.net cancer more likely to be fatal than in nonblack men Welcome, Travelers! By Victoria Warren PSA (prostate-specific antigen) The research was sup - cancers: the 12-year mortality the American Society for Radia - Travel on the Special to levels, digital rectal exams, and ported by the Prostate rate was 2.2 percent in black pa - tion Oncology, and the Depart - The Mid-South Tribune repeated biopsies. If there is ev - tients versus 1.4 percent in non - ment of Defense Prostate Cancer Black History Lane idence the cancer is progressing, Cancer Foundation, the blacks. This difference, the Research Program. on The Mid-South --- Black men diag - treatment may be warranted. 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But when the prospective trials to both better of cancer research and treatment. See the search led by a Dana-Farber Can - surgery than nonblack men hav - analysis focused on patients with characterize Gleason 6 disease in It is the only center ranked in the 23rd Annual cer Institute scientist and ing surgery,” said Brandon Gleason grade 6 cancer, there black men and to test different top 4 of U.S. News and World Black History 2018 published as a report in JAMA. Mahal, MD, of the Department were 51 deaths among 12,707 management strategies,” i.e. im - Report’s Best Hospitals for both Special Edition The study analyzed databases of of Radiation Oncology at Dana- black patients (0.40 percent) ver - mediate treatment versus active adult and pediatric cancer care. on the hundreds of thousands of men di - Farber and first author of the re - sus 155 deaths among 70,938 surveillance. He said that in the According to its literature, Dana- Black History Lane agnosed with prostate cancer and port. While the reasons for this nonblack patients (0.22 percent) United States, data suggest that Farber’s mission is to reduce the See the 2017 assigned a Gleason score on the aren’t clear, he said, “the reasons at a median follow-up of 36 an increasing number of men burden of cancer through scien - Juneteenth Special basis of a biopsy and examina - are likely multifactorial—it months. In other words, the death with Gleason 6 prostate cancer tific inquiry, clinical care, educa - Edition tion of samples of the cancer could be that Gleason 6 cancer in rate – while low – was almost are opting for active surveillance, tion, community engagement, under a microscope. Gleason black men is inherently more ag - double in the black men with but that option is used less fre - and advocacy. 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