From The Paper Of Record: Walt's "Cousin" Roy Dead

Roy E. Disney, Who Became a Power at His Uncle Walt's Studio, Dies at 79 
By BROOKS BARNES
Roy E. Disney, Walt's cousin, dies in Los Angeles at age 79, had been a longtime power-broker at Disney Studios. 

And while we're busily bitching, it is one of our fondest wishes that the next person who types or speaks the phrase "following [Or "after."] a year-long battle with [any kind of] cancer" will be struck down in their prime by ass-cancer that eats their body away before their eyes. (Before it eats their fucking un-critical eyes as well.) Perhaps we should wish that it happen to a close & beloved relative; that will give the hack typist a better idea of how we feel when they apply their cancer to our beloved (Joke, ha ha.) English language. The "battle" is between CANCER & the medical personnel involved, w/ the patient/sufferer/victim's body merely the uninvolved but wrecked field of battle.

P. S.: Can anyone who follows any non-English media advise us if this unfortunate expression has currency in other tongues?

P. P. S.: Proof.

Granted, not from the paper or online edition, but from the email they send us. Nonetheless (especially as the item in the online ed. was updated) we'll assume that's how it originally appeared. Morans.