Complex sentence: Diagnosed with throat cancer in 1995 Flood was originally given a 90% chance of survival, but the chemotherapy proved too much for him, and Flood died in Los Angeles, California home at age 59.
Split into simpler sentences: Diagnosed with throat cancer in 1995, Flood was originally given a 90% chance of survival. But the chemotherapy proved too much for him, and Flood died in Los Angeles, California at age 59.