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Dolly Parton's cause of death has been revealed as a brief battle with cancer, where she was hospitalized at the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center in Nashville, Tennessee.

The country music icon, who was hospitalized on Friday and died on Tuesday, acknowledged that she had neglected her health as she looked after her husband, who died earlier in…

Dolly Parton passed away at age 80 after a brief, private battle with cancer