After a five-year battle with the illness, he eventually succumbed in 1996 at the age of 61.

He died after a five-year battle with brain cancer, his family said.

Tuttle died July 27, 1998, after a five-year battle with cancer.

This finally ended a nearly five-year legal battle, with the north losing every round.

He died on August 10, 1999 at age forty after a five-year battle with cancer.

"Mentally, I am preparing for a five-year battle," she said.

She died in 1970 after a five-year long battle with cancer.

Her mother died in December 2004, aged 46, after a five-year battle against cancer.

Carmichael died at the age of 54 after a five-year battle with esophageal cancer.

He died after a five-year battle with heart disease, said his son Vincent.