The cancer eventually killed him on December 12, 2006, at the age of 75.

Well, if you're going to die anyway, what difference does it make whether a virus or a cancer kills you?

They die of something else before the cancer kills them.

The cancer kills an estimated 40,000 women a year and any decline in incidence can be important.

Or the cancer might eventually kill him, possibly while in office.

His cancer killed him before he could leave the hospital.

The cancer will kill me before the cigars, so why not?

"If he doesn't get the chemotherapy, the doctor said the cancer would kill him."

But after three years of fame, rectal cancer nearly killed him.

"They used to think that was how cancer killed you, by stealing your calories."