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Ongoing
Cancer Survey Results
(Updated
Daily)
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Cancer
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Qty
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Smoker |
Other
Risk Factors
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Female
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Male
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Terminal? |
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Breast
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7
|
1
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7
|
|
5
- yes
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Brain
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1
|
1
|
|
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1
|
1
- Yes
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Colon
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2
|
|
|
2
|
|
2
- Yes
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Larynx
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1
|
1
|
|
|
1
|
1
- Yes
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Leukemia
|
3
|
1
|
|
2
|
1
|
2
- No
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Liver
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3
|
|
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2
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1
|
3
- Yes
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Lung
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1
|
1
|
|
|
1
|
1
- Yes
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Mesothelioma
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1
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|
1
|
|
1
- Yes
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Skin
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1
|
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Medication
/ Abestos
|
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1
|
1
- Yes
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Ovarian
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1
|
|
|
1
|
|
1
- No
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Prostate
|
4
|
2
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Poor
Diet / No Medical
Treatment / Family
History |
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4
|
2
- Yes
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Breast
/ Prostate
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1
|
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Family
History |
|
1
|
1
- No
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Colon,
Liver, Prostate
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1
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|
|
1
|
|
1
- Yes
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Prostrate
& Colon
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1
|
|
1
|
|
1
|
|
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Breast
/ Kidney
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1
|
1
|
|
|
1
|
1
- Yes
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Prancreatic
/ Liver
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2
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|
|
1
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1
|
2
- Yes
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| Total
Surveyed |
31 |
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There's
an awful lot of us dying of
cancer? The question on my mind
is WHY?
What
is
Cancer? According
to American Cancer Society -
Cancer develops when cells in
a part of the body begin to
grow out of control. Although
there are many kinds of cancer,
they all start because of out-of-control
growth of abnormal cells. It
may spread to other parts of
the body through the lymphatic
system or the blood stream.
As
the webmaster of The Liberian-Connection
- TLC Africa, I have posted
many death announcements for
families of Liberians and other
west Africans who died from
one form of cancer or another.
As the months turn into years,
the list is getting longer and
it seems at a faster rate.
I
am not sure if previous medical
or scientific studies have been
done in Liberian or west African
communities, at home or abroad,
but certain questions keep coming
to mind.
Is there a link between their
deaths? Is it something in our
environment? Is it something
in our food? Is it something
in the air we breathe or the
water we drink? Are more us
dying of cancer aboard then
at home in West Africa? Are
the number of deaths, compatible
with other countries in Africa
and abroad? What types of Cancers
are we dying from?
Based
on these questions and others
our readers may have, I am starting
an online survey of questions
that I hope will grow with more
questions of interest, and answers
on the subject.
Age
Group at Diagnosis
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Age
Group
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Persons
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20
-
34
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1
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35
-
39
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3
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40
-
49
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11
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50
-
59
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9
|
|
60
-
69
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5
|
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70
-
75
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2
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Total
Surveyed
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31
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Sickness
and death are highly personal
matters to individuals and families.
My intent is not to collect
personal information, but general
information that can be collected,
compared, analyzed and generated
into useful statistical data.
If you have information about
the subject of Liberians and
West Africans in remission,
recovery, sick with, or who
died of Cancer, please take
a minute and contribute questions
and answers to our online survey.
Please
fill
out and submit the survey once.
Thanks for your involvement
and participation...
Special
Thanks to Mrs. Jestina
Doe-Anderson, PhD
pharmacologist for helping us
reorganized our survey questions.
Readers
Comments
There
are so many friends and relative
I lost to cancer in the past
15 years. I don't need to fill
out any survey to know the cause
of the high cancer rate among
Liberians. Look at all the mining
concessions and rubber plantations
in Liberia. These large companies
and private owners were polluting
our water and air daily. There
was no anti environmental or
pollution laws to protect our
population and the nation. If
there were any, the so called
politicians looked away from
the problem. The imported goods
were never inspected or regulated.
In my opinion, the high cancer
rate is one of the price we
are paying for years of neglect
and corruption by those in control
of our beloved country.
Samuel
H Perkins, Yonkers, NY
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