Unfortunately John Wayne died of stomach cancer on 11th June 1979. He was 72 years old.
His cancer probably originated from an earlier tumour found on his left lung in 1964. The lung was removed and John was diagnosed as 'cancer free'. John carried on working and but was often breathless as a result of only having one lung and had to given oxygen during breaks following gruelling scenes. Sadly, his cancer returned only this time it couldn't be beaten. God always be with you John Wayne.
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@darkstar1977a much as i loved smoking, cigarettes simply eat you up inside; i'm no oncologist, but likely his lung cancer metastasized in his stomach. if u smoke, please please quit; there's lots of things to help make that horrid transition much easier nowadays; when wayne quit, there was only one's willpower, an ineffectual opponent to ferociously addictive nicotine, which is harder to kick than heroin, or so i've heard--
john wayne might of been a smoker but i believe he might got sick on a movie he did also. some of the stars i heard on the same movie got sick as well.
my uncle maybe was sick many times with other health problems and with smoke but really the cancer did not show up until the last minute until almost close to his death. the lungs were already mostly bad long before the spot ever showed up. when the spot came it spread and made his life cut short real quicky. there was very little they could do for him. he fought hard but maybe john and my uncle would have maybe rather died like a cowboy getting rid all the bad guys around them.
you may live a good many years while still smoking and going to the doc but remember it will catch up with you soon or later. expect staying more time in the hospital hook up with breathing machines. needles, taing many pills especially it will be worser if you have other problems on top of it. i've seen my uncle back and forth . he was strong but the cancer one . you can not play with fire all the time. it will catch up to you . only you can make the change . little steps and stay healthy
well spoken john. i wish my uncle could have listen to you more and to me. lost my uncle to smoke. my uncle had lost 40 percent most all his lungs. only was about 10 percent left in his lungs. they had a found a spot on him but they could not save him depending where the spot was and his age. i watch him die in the hospital. he dried up like a prune. after he was dead he looked like someone had been dead for a while all dried up and shrink with his size.
Cancer causing agents are in just about everything. From brake pads to coffee. An adverage ciggarette contains 200-300 cancer causing agents. A 12oz cup of coffee contains over 800 cancer causing agents. Breathing in burnt plant matter of any kind can cause cancer, whether its cigarettes or leaves. It causes tiny liasons in your throat and lungs that can develop into cancer. Cancer is apart of the realality of life. Something will kill us in the end and we don't have a choice what it is.
@Pizuzuzimmer wish i worked for the tobacco industry (maybe i should look into that career path. lol), maybe i'd get my cig cheaper or free.
However, the truth does hurt. a little research works wonders. yes cigs are bad for you. yes they are addicting (and can be harder to quit then heroin). But its a personal choice of what people decide to do with their bodies, even if some else disagrees with it. as long as it doesn't hurt anyone directly (cig smoke can be avoided).
@Pizuzuzimmer And i've been smoking for 20 years and my lungs are fine, according to the doctors. Just some high blood pressure (which runs in my family).
Your doctors are lying to you. After 20 years of such abuse, your lungs cannot be "fine." You perhaps don't have tumors growing there (yet), but certainly your lung capacity is nothing approaching what a healthy person your age will have. You likely cannot run or walk nearly as far as someone your age who does not smoke. Rest assured, smoking related ailments WILL affect you eventually, even if you manage to dodge lung cancer.
He got cancer from one of the movies they were filming something in the air got into his lungs and caused cancer my mom and i are big fans of john wayne and we are always looking up info of him on the internet!
Among the 220 or so cast and crew who filmed the 1956 film, The Conqueror, on location near St. George, Utah, 91 at various times developed some form of cancer (41%), including stars Wayne, Susan Hayward, and Agnes Moorehead, and director Dick Powell. The film was shot in southwestern Utah, east of and generally downwind from the site of recent U.S. Government nuclear weapons tests in southeastern Nevada. Many believe the crew was poisoned by the contaninated by the radioactive fallout.- Wiki.
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You smoke, you pay the price. You smoke a 100 cigarettes a day, what do you think will happen to your lungs? Personally, I don't miss him, I didn't even like him or his films.
@Tmartin1438, and he didn't get it from smokeing, it was from radiation. From what I've read He had been filming a movie near an area where Nucular Bombs were being detonated by the US Military. Every one who worked on the film died of cancer.
@xxcharmed1xx he was known to smoke 6 packs a day. But there is evidence that he was exsposed to radiation while filming The Conqueror in 1956. Of the 220 people on location, 91 of them eventualy got cancer. I'm sure the smoking didn't help.
@Donald6899 It's what I read. Supposedly while filming a movie miles away from the detonation site they were exposed to fallout from the bomb tests. I don't know if there's any real truth to it but it is possible. Nobody knew jack shit about the effects of radiation at that time. He had a large tumor removed from his lung, I don't think tumors develop from smokeing(not a doctor). Course smokeing didn't help him either.
He beat the lung cancer but it was the stomach cancer that got him.Considering the technology in those days he's lucky to have lived as long as he did.Smoking is very dangerous.Having cancer causing agents circulating throughout your body for years you can get oral cancer,pancreas,throat not just lung cancer.You run a high risk of stroke and heart attack.I wonder how much of that smoking he did contibute contribute to him devolping stomach cancer if at all.
to shamrock32--if you are listening--JohnRogersly aka Obama4ever akaPeterfirthfan is a 14 year old homosexual who is angry at the world and posting nasty comments about dead actors is the only way he can get any release--because his mommy won't allow gay boys in his house.
To JohnRogersly--you young gay ass-a lot of people still smoke and drank today--what do you mean--"everybody smoked and drank then" it hasn't stopped with wayne's death--stu-pid! You think cigerettes and alcohol don't exist today--you are a young faggot idiot!
The conventional wisdom today says his stomach cancer (which is what killed him) was likely caused by ingesting radio-active isotopes while on set of the The Conqueror. Whether or not that's true, we all have to consider we are exposed to 30 years or more of atmospheric testing and all the fallout deadly for some 24 thousand years. Could explain all the brain tumors going around these days...
There, were 222 people from the cast and crew of "The Conqueror" of that 91 of them developed some type of cancer. It's safe to say the film site exposed them to radation fallout. John Wayne most likely developed cancer from this.
Nah, it's an urban myth. Most of the cast and crew of "The Caine Mutiny" died of cancer as well. Everyone smoked and drank a lot then, and Wayne blazed his way through six packs of cigarettes a day.
I still believe his stomach & lung cancer was caused from the filming of "The Conqueror", but having a 6 pack a day habit didn't help much either. Still, it was a great move on his part to film these ads.
Oh, look, the cum-stained pedophile is now stalking me on YouTube. Sorry, sperm boy, but I'm not your type. You'll have to go back to your sordid pages on AIDS-infected vermin who are seeking to infect others via rectal injections for what you seek.
Of course you're not. I prefer sane, rational, educated, humane human beings, and you fail on every count, as much as that truth sends you into an incoherent rage...hence your continuing to soil yourself in public in youtube forums.
You prefer semen-dripping, shit-covered cocks to ram into your mouth and anus by the dozens. "Soiling" would be something about which you know a thing or two, eh, you diseased invert?
As though you would know the slightest thing about "human beings." You and the other animals you cluster fuck scarcely even get into the same solar system of the definition.
John Wayne died from stomach cancer, not lung cancer.
BradDay71 3 days ago
Unfortunately John Wayne died of stomach cancer on 11th June 1979. He was 72 years old.
His cancer probably originated from an earlier tumour found on his left lung in 1964. The lung was removed and John was diagnosed as 'cancer free'. John carried on working and but was often breathless as a result of only having one lung and had to given oxygen during breaks following gruelling scenes. Sadly, his cancer returned only this time it couldn't be beaten. God always be with you John Wayne.
starryian007 1 month ago
Youtube REALLY has to do SOMETHING to fix this damned post button for comments. I REALLY HATE when I try to post a comment on a video , only to get the " ERROR , TRY AGAIN " message and THEN find that my comment was posted not just ONCE , BUT THREE FRIGGIN' TIMES IN A ROW!!!!
darkstar1977a 1 month ago
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Just to let people know , ( Not trying to attract any negative comments ) John Wayne died from STOMACH cancer ,not lung cancer.
darkstar1977a 1 month ago
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Just to let people know , ( Not trying to attract any negative comments ) John Wayne died from STOMACH cancer ,not lung cancer.
darkstar1977a 1 month ago
Just to let people know , ( Not trying to attract any negative comments ) John Wayne died from STOMACH cancer ,not lung cancer.
darkstar1977a 1 month ago
@darkstar1977a much as i loved smoking, cigarettes simply eat you up inside; i'm no oncologist, but likely his lung cancer metastasized in his stomach. if u smoke, please please quit; there's lots of things to help make that horrid transition much easier nowadays; when wayne quit, there was only one's willpower, an ineffectual opponent to ferociously addictive nicotine, which is harder to kick than heroin, or so i've heard--
moiraregis 1 month ago
john wayne might of been a smoker but i believe he might got sick on a movie he did also. some of the stars i heard on the same movie got sick as well.
gnoccafan 1 month ago
my uncle maybe was sick many times with other health problems and with smoke but really the cancer did not show up until the last minute until almost close to his death. the lungs were already mostly bad long before the spot ever showed up. when the spot came it spread and made his life cut short real quicky. there was very little they could do for him. he fought hard but maybe john and my uncle would have maybe rather died like a cowboy getting rid all the bad guys around them.
gnoccafan 1 month ago
you may live a good many years while still smoking and going to the doc but remember it will catch up with you soon or later. expect staying more time in the hospital hook up with breathing machines. needles, taing many pills especially it will be worser if you have other problems on top of it. i've seen my uncle back and forth . he was strong but the cancer one . you can not play with fire all the time. it will catch up to you . only you can make the change . little steps and stay healthy
gnoccafan 1 month ago
well spoken john. i wish my uncle could have listen to you more and to me. lost my uncle to smoke. my uncle had lost 40 percent most all his lungs. only was about 10 percent left in his lungs. they had a found a spot on him but they could not save him depending where the spot was and his age. i watch him die in the hospital. he dried up like a prune. after he was dead he looked like someone had been dead for a while all dried up and shrink with his size.
gnoccafan 1 month ago
Tony26531 Dont make comments on something you dont know and more than likely was never born when Wayne was alive.
serpico56 3 months ago
Cancer causing agents are in just about everything. From brake pads to coffee. An adverage ciggarette contains 200-300 cancer causing agents. A 12oz cup of coffee contains over 800 cancer causing agents. Breathing in burnt plant matter of any kind can cause cancer, whether its cigarettes or leaves. It causes tiny liasons in your throat and lungs that can develop into cancer. Cancer is apart of the realality of life. Something will kill us in the end and we don't have a choice what it is.
CamaroAmx 8 months ago
@CamaroAmx
You must have a job with the tobacco industry to trot this shameful 'logic' out in public.
Pizuzuzimmer 2 months ago
@Pizuzuzimmer wish i worked for the tobacco industry (maybe i should look into that career path. lol), maybe i'd get my cig cheaper or free.
However, the truth does hurt. a little research works wonders. yes cigs are bad for you. yes they are addicting (and can be harder to quit then heroin). But its a personal choice of what people decide to do with their bodies, even if some else disagrees with it. as long as it doesn't hurt anyone directly (cig smoke can be avoided).
CamaroAmx 2 months ago
@CamaroAmx
If you don't work for them, then the only remaining excuse for your post is stupidity.
Pizuzuzimmer 2 months ago
@Pizuzuzimmer And i've been smoking for 20 years and my lungs are fine, according to the doctors. Just some high blood pressure (which runs in my family).
CamaroAmx 2 months ago
@CamaroAmx
Your doctors are lying to you. After 20 years of such abuse, your lungs cannot be "fine." You perhaps don't have tumors growing there (yet), but certainly your lung capacity is nothing approaching what a healthy person your age will have. You likely cannot run or walk nearly as far as someone your age who does not smoke. Rest assured, smoking related ailments WILL affect you eventually, even if you manage to dodge lung cancer.
Pizuzuzimmer 2 months ago
He got cancer from one of the movies they were filming something in the air got into his lungs and caused cancer my mom and i are big fans of john wayne and we are always looking up info of him on the internet!
2506jordan 10 months ago
@2506jordan
Right, "something in the air." The chemicals from the cigarettes he was smoking, to be more precise.
Pizuzuzimmer 2 months ago
Among the 220 or so cast and crew who filmed the 1956 film, The Conqueror, on location near St. George, Utah, 91 at various times developed some form of cancer (41%), including stars Wayne, Susan Hayward, and Agnes Moorehead, and director Dick Powell. The film was shot in southwestern Utah, east of and generally downwind from the site of recent U.S. Government nuclear weapons tests in southeastern Nevada. Many believe the crew was poisoned by the contaninated by the radioactive fallout.- Wiki.
CamaroAmx 2 months ago
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You smoke, you pay the price. You smoke a 100 cigarettes a day, what do you think will happen to your lungs? Personally, I don't miss him, I didn't even like him or his films.
Donald6899 1 year ago
1 Billion dollars a year and 40 years later. Still no cure. Wake up America.
websuspect 1 year ago
@websuspect Yup. If they find a cure, their out of a job! So it's never going to happen.
daffydoug 1 year ago
Did he have lung cancer or Stomach cancer?
Mr508films 1 year ago
@Mr508films both, he had a lung removed then died from stomach cancer
Tmartin1438 1 year ago
@Tmartin1438, and he didn't get it from smokeing, it was from radiation. From what I've read He had been filming a movie near an area where Nucular Bombs were being detonated by the US Military. Every one who worked on the film died of cancer.
GESSO217 1 year ago
@GESSO217 No, not everyone. Do you even know how many cigarettes he smoked a day for years of his life? Im sure that contributed to his death =(
xxcharmed1xx 10 months ago
@xxcharmed1xx he was known to smoke 6 packs a day. But there is evidence that he was exsposed to radiation while filming The Conqueror in 1956. Of the 220 people on location, 91 of them eventualy got cancer. I'm sure the smoking didn't help.
CamaroAmx 8 months ago
@CamaroAmx Ok then, the smoking and drinking attributed to his cancer. However, he is a legend and i miss him.
xxcharmed1xx 8 months ago
@GESSO217 - are you for real??? Don't talk stupid.
Donald6899 8 months ago
@Donald6899 It's what I read. Supposedly while filming a movie miles away from the detonation site they were exposed to fallout from the bomb tests. I don't know if there's any real truth to it but it is possible. Nobody knew jack shit about the effects of radiation at that time. He had a large tumor removed from his lung, I don't think tumors develop from smokeing(not a doctor). Course smokeing didn't help him either.
GESSO217 8 months ago
@GESSO217
Given the content of your message, you really felt it necessary to inform us that you're not a doctor?
Pizuzuzimmer 2 months ago
@Mr508films
He had soul cancer.
Pizuzuzimmer 2 months ago
He beat the lung cancer but it was the stomach cancer that got him.Considering the technology in those days he's lucky to have lived as long as he did.Smoking is very dangerous.Having cancer causing agents circulating throughout your body for years you can get oral cancer,pancreas,throat not just lung cancer.You run a high risk of stroke and heart attack.I wonder how much of that smoking he did contibute contribute to him devolping stomach cancer if at all.
mr10tomidnight 2 years ago
Drinking so much whisky was probably also a factor.
FrankClanton 1 year ago
to shamrock32--if you are listening--JohnRogersly aka Obama4ever akaPeterfirthfan is a 14 year old homosexual who is angry at the world and posting nasty comments about dead actors is the only way he can get any release--because his mommy won't allow gay boys in his house.
melollylolly 2 years ago
To JohnRogersly--you young gay ass-a lot of people still smoke and drank today--what do you mean--"everybody smoked and drank then" it hasn't stopped with wayne's death--stu-pid! You think cigerettes and alcohol don't exist today--you are a young faggot idiot!
melollylolly 2 years ago
Patrick Swayze and Keith Floyd have both just died from smoking.
PeterFirthFan 2 years ago
The conventional wisdom today says his stomach cancer (which is what killed him) was likely caused by ingesting radio-active isotopes while on set of the The Conqueror. Whether or not that's true, we all have to consider we are exposed to 30 years or more of atmospheric testing and all the fallout deadly for some 24 thousand years. Could explain all the brain tumors going around these days...
kassandrasduplex 2 years ago
Richard Nixon killed John Wayne !! Hemp oil = cancer cure !!!! 420 Rick Simpson - Run from the cure !
sociablyclussy 2 years ago
Nah, it was definitely from smoking 100 cigarettes a day.
JohnRogersly 3 years ago 5
There, were 222 people from the cast and crew of "The Conqueror" of that 91 of them developed some type of cancer. It's safe to say the film site exposed them to radation fallout. John Wayne most likely developed cancer from this.
shamrock32 3 years ago
Nah, it's an urban myth. Most of the cast and crew of "The Caine Mutiny" died of cancer as well. Everyone smoked and drank a lot then, and Wayne blazed his way through six packs of cigarettes a day.
JohnRogersly 3 years ago
I must respectifuly disagree
shamrock32 3 years ago
Cigarettes are safer than marijuana! Join the fight; end marijuana abuse!
DeathByMarijuana 2 years ago
I still believe his stomach & lung cancer was caused from the filming of "The Conqueror", but having a 6 pack a day habit didn't help much either. Still, it was a great move on his part to film these ads.
BeachPirate1976 3 years ago
I remeber when this add aired.
CntryInVa 3 years ago
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WhereEaglesDareUK 3 years ago
he sure is right on this one, it killed him, and look how long it took if he had onlt quit after they got it all, he may have lived a bit longer
mdwright48 4 years ago
I miss John Wayne!!
Firefly2466 5 years ago 11
@Firefly2466
Why don't you go look for him?
Pizuzuzimmer 8 months ago
@Pizuzuzimmer, like you look for Satan with your head wedged up his ass?
GodCreatesGays2 2 months ago
@GodCreatesGays2
Oh, look, the cum-stained pedophile is now stalking me on YouTube. Sorry, sperm boy, but I'm not your type. You'll have to go back to your sordid pages on AIDS-infected vermin who are seeking to infect others via rectal injections for what you seek.
How much time do the doctors give you?
Pizuzuzimmer 2 months ago
@Pizuzuzimmer sobs, "I'm not your type."
Of course you're not. I prefer sane, rational, educated, humane human beings, and you fail on every count, as much as that truth sends you into an incoherent rage...hence your continuing to soil yourself in public in youtube forums.
GodCreatesGays2 2 months ago
@GodCreatesGays2
You prefer semen-dripping, shit-covered cocks to ram into your mouth and anus by the dozens. "Soiling" would be something about which you know a thing or two, eh, you diseased invert?
Pizuzuzimmer 2 months ago
@Pizuzuzimmer, see, this is why no human being would consent to have anything to do with you, and why you're left with your fist as your only friend.
Chucklin'.
GodCreatesGays2 2 months ago
@GodCreatesGays2
As though you would know the slightest thing about "human beings." You and the other animals you cluster fuck scarcely even get into the same solar system of the definition.
Pizuzuzimmer 2 months ago