Two bouts of colon cancer have ended, the curtain fallen.
You're 79 and you've endured two bouts of Hodgkin's disease.
Two bouts of colon cancer in the past five years have left his intestines in disarray.
She has had two bouts of cancer, 10 years ago and then again 7 years ago.
She suffered two bouts of temporary blindness, brought on, her doctors told her, by strain.
Alex had two bouts of hormone treatment which made her feel 'bizarre - hot flushes, shifting emotions, manic stretches'.
But when he suffered two bouts of congestive heart failure last year, even mundane tasks became overwhelming.
I have known Lenny P. for almost 10 years, through two bouts of shingles and a slipped disk.
In our household of three, we've had two bouts of tick-borne Lyme disease and one of tick-borne ehrlichiosis.
After somehow dodging military service he had dropped out of law school and become "a veteran of two bouts of gonorrhea".
Or is it a statement: a hotshot I was, a hotshot I continue to be, even after the mortal tap on the shoulder of two bouts of cancer.
