The singer had lost her husband to cancer only a few months earlier, friends said.

John lost his mother to cancer when he was a young boy.

He lost his wife to cancer 3 years ago, and has a 7-year-old daughter.

The letter's author was a young girl who had recently lost her best friend to cancer.

I lost my mother to cancer a couple of years ago.

The look on his face made her think that he might have lost a family member to cancer.

Sharp himself had lost a son to cancer in 1979.

The artist lost his mother to cancer at a very early age.

A year ago, he had lost his mother to cancer.

A few years back, I saw an elderly woman who had just lost her husband to cancer.