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    "id": 602945,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Machage",
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        "legal_name": "Wilfred Gisuka Machage",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, indeed, it is a sorry state. We know that cancer of the oesophagus or throat cancer is rare. Maybe because of the high index of suspicion and an increase in medical services, we are now recording quite a high number of cases. But we know the etiology that has been partly enumerated by Prof. Anyang’-Nyong’o. These would include things like tobacco use, which has been studied in that area, eating smoked fish and consumption of excessive alcohol, which I would not expect much from that area, since it is a Muslim Community. There is also exposure to asbestos. It is possible that whatever was mined had components of asbestos. Studies have to be conducted in that region to determine whether there are any asbestos but the causes include even poor oral hygiene. The hon. Senator is very much in order to demand that the Government goes back and relooks at the etiology of these cancers in that region, instead of keeping quiet and considering only commercial benefits of explorations in Kenya."
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