Title: Carl Wilson
Content:   Wilson became ill at his vacation home in Hawaii in early 1997. He was diagnosed with lung cancer, and was started on chemotherapy. He had been smoking cigarettes since his early teens. Despite his illness and treatments, he continued to play and sing with the Beach Boys throughout their entire summer tour till its completion in the fall of 1997. Wilson died of lung cancer in Los Angeles, surrounded by his family, on February 6, 1998. His death occurred just two months after the death of his mother, Audree Wilson. He was interred at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles.
Title: Robert M. Wilson Jr.
Content:  Wilson received the 2010 Jazzman of the Year award for his efforts from the Arkansas Jazz Heritage Foundation. The 16-year project came to an end in May 2011. Cancer - In March 2010 Wilson was diagnosed with terminal esophageal cancer. After treatment at the Winthrop P Rockefeller Cancer Treatment Center at the University of Arkansas Medical School in Little Rock he was found in January 2010 to be cancer free. He was named as one of the Faces of Cancer for 2011 by the American Cancer Society and has participated in continuing the development of growing awareness of this illness. In April, 2011 additional cancer was found and surgically removed. Wilson devoted a large percentage of his last days to Cancer Awareness and recovery and the hope that Cancer could be cured.
Title: Robert James Carlson
Content:  Carlson survived stage-four bladder cancer in the 1990s, having once been told by his doctor to arrange his financial affairs in order to prepare for an imminent death. He has undergone a total of seven cancer-related procedures, and partly credited a trip to the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Fátima in Portugal for his recovery.
Title: Charlie Wilson (singer)
Content:  In 1995, Wilson married Mahin Tat. They met in that same year, when she was his social worker during his time in a drug rehabilitation program. Since 1995, Wilson has been clean from his cocaine and alcohol addictions that led him into becoming homeless and to begin sleeping on the streets of Hollywood Boulevard from 1993 to 1995. In 2008, he was diagnosed with prostate cancer and treated successfully with implants. He has since worked with the Prostate Cancer Foundation, encouraging Black men to be tested for the disease. He has also spread awareness by providing vocals for Lupe Fiasco's single, titled "Mission", which focuses on cancer survivors.
Title: Brynle Williams
Content:  Williams was diagnosed with colon cancer in the summer of 2010. He died in April 2011 after an eight-month battle with the disease. In May 2012, an inquest into Williams' death heard that misdiagnosis of the cancer resulted in a five-month delay in its treatment. Williams was initially told by the Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board that he had ulcerative colitis in April 2010, five months before the colon cancer was correctly identified. The coroner concluded that the delay may have allowed him to "live longer but not necessarily have been cured". The case is now subject to a legal action by the Williams family.
Title: Bob Wilson (footballer, born 1941)
Content:  In February 1994, his daughter Anna was diagnosed with malignant schwannoma, a cancer of the nerve sheath. She died on 1 December 1998, six days before her 32nd birthday. The "Willow Foundation" was set up in her memory in 1999 and operated locally, mainly in Hertfordshire. Wilson relaunched the charity on 4 October 2005 with a national remit. The organisation was established in Anna's memory and now helps some of the estimated 12,500 people in the UK, aged 16–40, who are diagnosed every year with the illness. In 2007, Wilson was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for his charity work. In August 2010 Anna's widower, Mitchell Carey, died suddenly at the age of 44. An inquest later revealed that Carey, who had since remarried and had two children, died as a result of food poisoning – his death had originally been believed to have been the result of stepping on a sea urchin while on holiday in Greece shortly before his death in Stevenage.
Title: Carl Williams (boxer)
Content:  Williams died on April 7, 2013, of esophageal cancer. He was survived by a daughter, Carla, and a son, Daniel. He was predeceased by his 12-year-old daughter Nijah, who died of leukemia.
Title: Anil Wilson
Content:  Wilson was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in October 2008. He donated his organs for further medical research on the disease. He died on 25 June 2009 and was buried at the Nicholson Cemetery in Delhi. He was survived by his mother Mrs. D Wilson, wife Rita (an educationist herself), son Amit, daughter-in-law Pooja and daughter Aparna.
Title: Edward Wilson (actor)
Content:  In 2004 Ed Wilson was persuaded by Michael York (a former member of the NYT) to move to the US to lead the California Youth Theatre at the Ivar Theatre, Hollywood. In his later life he became a devout convert to Roman Catholicism. Wilson was diagnosed with cancer in 2007 and died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Wilson's long-term personal and professional partner was Brian Lee ("a supremely gifted stage designer" – Bryan Forbes). Lee - who designed many of Wilson's stage productions - predeceased Wilson, dying of cancer in December 1994. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and had an honorary doctorate from the University of Sunderland.
Title: Carl Wilson
Content:  group's critical and commercial peak in the mid 1960s. After Brian's reduced involvement with the group, Carl produced the bulk of their albums between 20/20 (1969) and Holland (1973). Concurrently, he spent several years challenging his draft status as a conscientious objector. During the 1980s, Wilson attempted to launch a solo career, releasing the albums Carl Wilson (1981) and Youngblood (1983). In the 1990s, he recorded material with Gerry Beckley and Robert Lamm, later released for the posthumous album Like a Brother (2000). He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Beach Boys in 1988. Wilson was also a member of the Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness, a religious corporation. He died, aged 51, of lung cancer in 1998.

Question: what kind of cancer did carl wilson have?
Answer: Lung cancer.