What disease did Roy Disney have?

Disney died of stomach cancer on December 16, 2009, 43 years to the day after his uncle died and 25 days before his 80th birthday, at Hoag Memorial Hospital in Newport Beach, California. He was 79 years old, and had been battling the disease for over a year.



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