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A carcinoma of the stomach developing after gastroenterostomy or gastric resection for benign disease.

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QUIZ YOURSELF ON "WAS" VS. "WERE"!

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“Was” is used for the indicative past tense of “to be,” and “were” is only used for the subjunctive past tense.

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After four or five months of casual interaction, they realized they both had lost a young parent to cancer.
Everyone at This Dinner Party Has Lost Someone|Samantha Levine|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST
A single father, he had been living abroad and returned when his mother was diagnosed with cancer.
Everyone at This Dinner Party Has Lost Someone|Samantha Levine|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Family members say he developed also liver cancer after his capture.
Final Chapter for Accused Africa Bomber|Jamie Dettmer|January 4, 2015|DAILY BEAST
They are model citizens, the kind of people whose lives might be used as exemplary stories by a politician in a stump speech.
The 2014 Novel of the Year|Nathaniel Rich|December 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST

My father has suffered two strokes and endured brain cancer since I was arrested and imprisoned.
An American Marine in Iran’s Prisons Goes on Hunger Strike|IranWire|December 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST
(b) Diseases of the stomach associated with deficient hydrochloric acid, as chronic gastritis and gastric cancer.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
For hours the gray man would sit on a tombstone, while Black Sheep read epitaphs, and then with a sigh would stump home again.
Kipling Stories and Poems Every Child Should Know, Book II|Rudyard Kipling
The cigar stump held firmly between his teeth, he stood on the rug before the hearth, facing the door.
Dope|Sax Rohmer
To-day men of science are trying to conquer the horrors of cancer and smallpox, and rabies and consumption.
God and my Neighbour|Robert Blatchford
Since he died from cancer in the stomach, he could retain very little food.
Assimilative Memory|Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)