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TUESDAY, Sept. 16, 2025 (HealthDay News) — “Liquid biopsy” tests using blood samples to screen for multiple types of cancer are attracting much attention, for their potential to catch unseen tumors.
But it's too soon to tell whether they're truly useful in the fight against cancer, a new evidence review warns.
These multicancer early detection (MCD) tests are comme...
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- September 16, 2025
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FRIDAY, Sept. 12, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A common nutrient found in leafy greens and corn may do more than protect eyesight.
New research shows that zeaxanthin, a plant-derived carotenoid, can strengthen the body’s cancer-fighting immune cells and make immunotherapy more effective.
The study, recently published in the journal
FRIDAY, Sept. 12, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Women who overcome cervical cancer might have another potentially life-threatening health crisis on their horizon, researchers say.
Cervical cancer survivors have nearly double the risk of developing anal cancers compared to the general populat...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- September 12, 2025
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THURSDAY, Sept. 4, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A new shampoo-like gel developed by researchers at Michigan State University could help protect cancer patients from a common and dreaded side effect of chemotherapy: Hair loss.
The gel, which has been tested in animal models, is designed ...
- I. Edwards HealthDay Reporter
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- September 4, 2025
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THURSDAY, Sept. 4, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Prostate cancer rates are climbing in the U.S. with more men being diagnosed at later stages when the disease is harder to treat, researchers report.
The analysis — published Tuesday in the journal
TUESDAY, Sept. 2, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Celebrity chef and restaurateur Gordon Ramsay revealed he had surgery to remove basal cell carcinoma, a common form of skin cancer, from his jawline.
The 58-year-old announced the news on social media during the Labo...
- I. Edwards HealthDay Reporter
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- September 2, 2025
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TUESDAY, Sept. 2, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Stricken with cancer in infancy, Jessica Lopez endured tumor-fighting treatments that saved her young life but also left her with lasting heart damage.
By the time she reached her early 30s, Lopez, who was left blind by her cancer, also found herself in triple-organ failure — her heart, liver and kidneys were shutting down. &nbs...
- Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporter
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- September 2, 2025
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FRIDAY, Aug. 29, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Shifting to a plant-based diet can help keep people from being plagued by multiple health problems as they age, a new study says.
People whose diets included more veggies, fruits, whole grains, legumes and plant-based foods had 32% lower odds of d...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- August 29, 2025
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TUESDAY, Aug. 26, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Frequently, patients with advanced cancer simply want to be made as comfortable as possible as they wind down their final days.
Doctors aren’t listening to their desires, a new study indicates.
Many of these patients are receiving treatment<...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- August 26, 2025
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MONDAY, Aug. 18, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Nike co-founder Phil Knight and his wife, Penny, will donate $2 billion to Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) to expand cancer research and patient care.
The school called it the largest single donation ever made to a U.S. university.
The gift will help OH...
- I. Edwards HealthDay Reporter
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- August 18, 2025
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THURSDAY, Aug. 14, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Artificial intelligence (AI) is being touted as a means of improving doctors’ effectiveness, but the new tool might dull their skills in some instances, a new study argues.
Specifically, doctors became worse at performing colonoscopies after AI started assisting them, researchers reported Aug. 12 in
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 13, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A person’s own voice might soon be a means of detecting whether they’re suffering throat cancer, a new study says.
Men with cancer of the larynx, or voice box, have distinct differences in their voices that could be detected with trained artificial intelligence (AI), researchers reported Aug. 12 in the journal
TUESDAY, Aug. 12, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A new vaccine aimed at a common cancer gene mutation could help stop aggressive pancreatic cancers from coming back, a small clinical trial suggests.
Pancreatic cancer is one of the most lethal cancers, with a five-year survival rate of about 13%, according to the
THURSDAY, Aug. 7, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Automatically mailing a stool test kit to people’s homes might be the best way to boost colon cancer screening among younger adults, a new study says.
More 45- to 49-year-olds went ahead with cancer screening when they receiv...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- August 7, 2025
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WEDNESDAY, Aug. 6, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Needless fear of hair loss and brittle, discolored nails caused by cancer treatment might lead many patients to avoid or delay life-saving treatment, a new pilot study says.
Many people misunderstand how common these side effects are during cancer ...
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- Dennis Thompson
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- August 6, 2025
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TUESDAY, Aug. 5, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A recently approved leukemia pill also might help some patients diagnosed with a deadly bone marrow disorder, a new pilot study says.
About 3 in 5 patients with myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) responded to treatment with olutasidenib (Rezlidhia), which the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FD...
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- Dennis Thompson
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- August 5, 2025
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MONDAY, Aug. 4, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Findings from a study in mice suggest that using a common artificial sweetener, sucralose, could hamper certain immunotherapy treatments in cancer patients.
However, for folks reluctant to give up the ubiquitous sweetener, the same team of scientists may have found a way around the problem: Giving mice a supplement that boosts levels of ...
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- Ernie Mundell
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- August 4, 2025
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WEDNESDAY, July 30, 2025 (HealthDay News) — University of Colorado football coach Deion Sanders says he is now cancer-free after an unexpected battle with bladder cancer. Now he’s encouraging others to take charge of their health.
Sanders, 57, spoke openly Monday at a
WEDNESDAY, July 30, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Firefighters work hard saving lives, and in process put their own lives at heightened risk from skin, kidney and other types of cancers, a new American Cancer Society (ACS) study finds.
“Although this isn’t favorable news, this study shines a spotlight on the long-term risks firefighters face beyond the immediate dangers of fig...
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- Ernie Mundell
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- July 30, 2025
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MONDAY, July 28, 2025 (HealthDay News) — U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is considering removing all 16 members of an advisory group that helps decide which preventive services, like cancer screenings and
MONDAY, July 28, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Cutting-edge immunotherapy drugs are incredibly effective against some cancers but barely put a dent in others – and researchers might now know why.
Patients’ own autoantibodies – immune proteins traditionally associated with autoim...
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- Dennis Thompson
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- July 28, 2025
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FRIDAY, July 25, 2025 (HealthDay News) — LaShae Rolle, 27, is a competitive powerlifter capable of squatting 441 pounds, benching 292 pounds and deadlifting 497 pounds.
Last year, breast cancer tried to derail Rolle's dreams...
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- Dennis Thompson
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- July 25, 2025
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THURSDAY, July 23, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Walkers don’t need to march 10,000 steps a day to gain substantial health benefits, a comprehensive new evidence review has concluded.
Instead, getting just 7,000 steps a day appears to be most effective in reducing a person’s risk of death and chronic illness, researchers reported today in
WEDNESDAY, July 23, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Cancer patients can be very vulnerable to a severe COVID infection, but COVID-19 vaccine boosters can be lifesavers for them, a new study says.
COVID boosters reduced cancer patients’ hospitalizations and ICU stays by 29%, researchers report in ...
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- Dennis Thompson
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- July 23, 2025
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WEDNESDAY, July 23, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A cancer diagnosis often forces a person to take a hard look at their life and lifestyle, but a new study shows that few take steps to eat healthier after treatment.
People who survive cancer are as likely as others to ignore the risk posed by red meat, alcohol and other unhealthy foods and to shrug off the benefits of fruits, vegetables a...
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- Dennis Thompson
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- July 23, 2025
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MONDAY, July 21, 2025 (HealthDay News) — GI cancers among people 50 and younger are rising at an alarming rate, increasing in the U.S. faster than any other type of early onset cancer, according to a pair of new studies.
Cancers of the colon, stomach and esophagus have all increased in recent years, threatening the health of younger Americans, researchers say.
Between 2010 and...
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- Dennis Thompson
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- July 21, 2025
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THURSDAY, July 17, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Folks who grew up near a polluted Missouri creek during the 1940s through 1960s may have higher odds for cancer now, new research shows.
The study focused on Coldwater Creek in St. Louis County. The area was contaminated with radioactive waste from the U.S. government’s atomic bomb program during World War II.
Back then, uranium...
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- July 17, 2025
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THURSDAY, July 17, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Kids coping with chronic health problems like asthma also are struggling with the emotional burden of stress, fear and sadness, a new study says.
Almost 94% of comments posted online by chronically ill kids and their caregivers expressed negative feelings like...
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- Dennis Thompson
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- July 17, 2025
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MONDAY, July 14, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Cancer deaths linked to obesity more than tripled in the U.S. during the past two decades, a new study says.
Deaths linked to the 13 types of obesity-related cancer rose to 13.5 deaths per million from 3.7 deaths per million between 1...
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- Dennis Thompson
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- July 14, 2025
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WEDNESDAY, July 9, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Powerful new immunotherapies are offering fresh hope for patients with many different types of cancer.
Unfortunately, that hope doesn’t extend to people without health insurance, a new study says.
Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) are...
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- Dennis Thompson
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- July 9, 2025
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TUESDAY, July 8, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Three-quarters of stomach cancer cases could be prevented if doctors eradicate infection by a common type of bacteria, a new study says.
The bacteria, Helicobacter pylori, is linked to 76% of future stomach cancer cases, researchers reported July 7 in the journal N...
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- Dennis Thompson
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- July 8, 2025
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MONDAY, July 7, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Radiation therapy to treat cancer might be a double-edged sword that increases the risk posed by other malignant tumors, a new study argues.
While radiation is often used alone or in combination with other treatments to control cancer, high doses of r...
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- Dennis Thompson
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- July 7, 2025
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MONDAY, June 30, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Nestle has joined a growing list of major food companies pledging to voluntarily eliminate artificial colors from their U.S. products by the middle of next year amid mounting health concerns.
"We are always looking for different ways to offer great tasting, compelling choices for our consumers," Nestle's U.S. CEO
TUESDAY, June 17, 2025 (HealthDay News) — When Chris Williams started feeling sharp stomach pain one night in 2021, he went straight to the emergency room. The next morning, he had surgery to remove his appendix.
But that wasn’t the end of his health scare. A few days later, doctors gave Williams unexpected news: They found a tumor on his appendix. Tests showed it was cancer &...
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- June 17, 2025
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TUESDAY, June 17, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Magic mushrooms might be key to quelling depression among people battling cancer.
A single dose of psilocybin provided sustained reductions in depression and anxiety among cancer patients diagnosed with major depression, according to small-scale study published Ju...
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- Dennis Thompson
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- June 17, 2025
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FRIDAY, June 13, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Ananda Lewis, a former MTV host and TV personality, is dead at 52.
Her friend Lakshmi Emory shared the news in a June 11 Facebook post. “She’s fr...
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- June 13, 2025
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TUESDAY, June 10, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Blood tests can detect evidence of cancer three years earlier than the disease would otherwise be diagnosed, a new small-scale pilot study says.
The test — called a multicancer early detection (MCED) test — loo...
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- Dennis Thompson
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- June 10, 2025
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MONDAY, June 9, 2025 (HealthDay News) — More young women in the United States are being diagnosed with breast cancer and several celebrities have helped raise awareness by sharing their stories.
Singer Jessie J,...
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- June 9, 2025
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FRIDAY, June 6, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Longtime ESPN “SportsCenter” anchor Jay Harris has been diagnosed with prostate cancer and is scheduled to have surgery on June 10.
Harris, 60, wrote about his experience in an essay...
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- June 6, 2025
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WEDNESDAY, June 4, 2025 (HealthDay News) — What you eat after a colon cancer diagnosis could do more than affect your energy or digestion — it might impact your chance of survival.
Researchers looked at more than 1,600 patients with stage 3 colon cancer. The...
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- June 4, 2025
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MONDAY, June 2, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A structured exercise program helped colon cancer survivors live longer and lowered their odds for a relapse, a major international study shows.
The program lasted three years and included regular meetings with a fitness coa...
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- June 2, 2025
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MONDAY, June 2, 2025 (HealthDay News) — U.S. rural communities could be experiencing a “brain drain” when it comes to cancer care, a new study says.
Most new radiation oncologists — docs who treat cancer with radiation — are choosing to work in big metropolitan areas...
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- Dennis Thompson
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- June 2, 2025
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WEDNESDAY, May 28, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Higher temperatures spurred by climate change could be increasing women’s risk of cancer, a new study says.
Increasing heat in the Middle East and North Africa has made breast,
WEDNESDAY, May 28, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Popular GLP-1 weight loss drugs like Ozempic and Zepbound can help reduce a woman’s risk for as many as 14 cancers associated with obesity, a new study says.
People taking a GLP-1 drug had a 7%...
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- Dennis Thompson
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- May 28, 2025
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The last thing a cancer patient might like to do is hit the treadmill or hop on an exercise bike, given how much the disease and its treatments drain a person’s energy.
But toughing through regular workouts can boost their odds of beating cancer, a new study says.
Getting recommended ...
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- Dennis Thompson
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- May 27, 2025
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FRIDAY, May 23, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Former President Joe Biden's prostate cancer diagnosis has drawn attention to screening guidelines for older men.
When Biden, 82, was diagnosed last week, his cancer had already spread to his bones. His last prostate screening was more than a decade ...
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- May 23, 2025
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FRIDAY, May 23, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Alcohol-fueled cancer deaths nearly doubled in the United States during the past three decades, with cases among men driving this surge, a new study says.
Between 1990 and 2021, deaths from alcohol-related cancers leaped fro...
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- Dennis Thompson
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- May 23, 2025
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Former President Joe Biden has been diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer that has spread to his bones, his office announced Sunday.
Doctors found the cancer after Biden reported urinary symptoms. Testing showed a small nodule on his prostate. ...
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- May 19, 2025
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Cutting-edge GLP-1 weight-loss drugs appear to help lower cancer risk even beyond the benefits from dropping excess pounds, a new study says.
First-generation GLP-1 drugs like liraglutide (Saxenda) and exenatide (Byetta) were associated with a 41% lower risk of obesity-related cance...
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- Dennis Thompson
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- May 19, 2025
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Transmasculine and gender diverse people who use testosterone are not at an increased risk for cervical, ovarian or other gynecological cancers, a new study says.
The results show that hormone therapy can safely be used to induce physical changes more in line with a person’s gender ide...
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- Dennis Thompson
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- May 16, 2025
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