11.   The problem diagnosed, surgery often follows.

12.   The process is decapitation followed by surgery.

13.   Wrist surgery followed last fall after a third-round Wimbledon flameout and a fourth-round U.S. Open loss.

14.   Chemotherapy and brain surgery followed.

15.   More surgery followed, as did the doubts about whether he ever would be the same again.

16.   The surgery followed earlier tests that found no signs that the cancer spread beyond the two new melanomas.

17.   Chemotherapy and radiation treatment were then followed by surgery to remove a fatty tumor, unrelated to the cancer, from his left side.