Towle used her social media accounts to share her experience with a rare bile duct cancer.
"They said, I'm sorry. You have cancer."
His wife released a statement stating Fosse passed away after "silently fighting" cancer for the past 16 years.
Scientific advances and awareness programs have helped fight back cancer deaths, experts say.
It's the smoldering trash from the massive burn pits on US military bases -- sometimes acres in size -- that will soon kill him.
Ed Casaccia's wife Maggie died three weeks ago from breast cancer. He has an unopened box of 21 tablets of her cancer drugs, which he estimates cost $24,000 without insurance. He wants to give the medication to someone who needs it, but that task has proven impossible.