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    "id": 12906,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/12906/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Prof. Anyang’-Nyong’o",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Medical Services",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Peter Anyang' Nyong'o",
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    "content": "Thirdly, the incidence of cancer is increasing globally and, particularly, nationally, and Members of Parliament have made that observation today. In Kenya, at least 82,000 are diagnosed with cancer every year, and at least 22,000 of those pass on. One of the reasons why there is a very high incidence of cancer is because of opportunistic diseases that attack HIV/AIDS patients, particularly Kaposi’s sarcoma, which is a very common cancer that affects such patients. The HIV has also complicated the prevalence of cancer in the nation; but more than that, as hon. Ethuro has pointed out, lifestyle changes. Previously, this was taken to be only a middle class phenomenon. Lifestyle change has now become a phenomenon of all social classes. With the increasing poverty in the rural and urban areas, people do not have access to proper food and proper nutrition. If you do not have proper nutrition, it means, as health professionals will tell you, that you do not fortify your body to have a proper immune system and build healthy cells against voracious cancer cells that are always in our bodies; all of us have them, but we only have to have immunity against them."
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