Gynecological Cancers

Today, Doug Pike interviews Dr. Comfort Ughanze about gynecological cancers.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 3 (00:42):
And now fifty plus with Doug Pike. All right, here
we go. Show starts now, Welcome to fifty plus. Thank
you all for listening on this Thursday, and we're finally
through that that just repetitive forecast of late partly cloudy

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with a chance for afternoon showers and thunderstorms. Blah blah
blah blah blah, And good riddance too for the next
four or five or maybe even six awesome days. We're
about to get gonna be cooler. High's in the eighties,
gonna be cooler at night as well, lows in the
low seventies, and dare we say it, potentially tickling the sixties,

(01:25):
which won't be so hard to take the tropics. Yeah,
they just don't seem to want to give up that
whole Atlantic Ocean thing where the little systems spin off
of Western Africa and then travel across the Atlantic Ocean
and come bother us, sometimes worse than others. So far,

(01:46):
we're actually doing pretty well. I don't want to jinx anything.
And the activity that we're seeing right now actually three systems,
two of which have names, one of which will probably
get one either tomorrow or maybe Saturday. But these three
systems out there are almost kind of normal for the
time of year. It's not one of them, by the way,

(02:09):
expected to pose any real threat to the continental of
the United States. The one that's not yet formed, in fact,
is the only one that the models say might swing
a little closer to our east coast. But if it
follows the past, the past that most of the models
say it will, it still won't get close enough to
do any damage. Good waves for East coast surfers definitely

(02:33):
ahead for about a week, maybe some rain in some areas,
super outer outer bands possibly, But if they've got this
one right, and so far this summer they've been right
through at least some of my sources have. They're outlining
models that show things manifesting into all kinds of craziness.

(02:55):
But so far, so good with this one. And if
it does what it's supposed to do, it'll be nothing
worse than any near miss. And that's that's not a
bad thing to have. Marcu's got off to a little
sluggish start downward this morning. Nothing noteworthy as the White House,
the Federal Reserve, and who knows who else, by the way,

(03:16):
Federal Reserve. It's kind of a confusing name because it's
none of that all. All of these entities are struggling
to find some common ground and hopefully just smooth the
water so we can continue an upward climb. Gold speaking
of up a little bit, and oil was down also
a little bit, though, to shed some positive light on

(03:38):
my tiny snapshots into that world, ah stepping into the news. Oh,
Jasmine Crackett's name came up again this morning, not for
something she said, but for something, but for an opinion
someone had of her that I find quite telling about
that person. Actually. In Kamala Harris's book, she wrote that

(04:00):
Crockett was on her short list of rising stars in
the Democrat Party. She sure knows how to pick them,
doesn't she Crockett. To her credit, Crockett is a bright woman, okay,
but she's abusing her intellect on some false belief that
just spouting ridiculous words from her mouth over and over

(04:21):
and over is somehow going to endear her to the
majority of what's left of the left. People are leaving
that side faster than freshmen at a frat party when
the keg runs dry. They just don't want to be
there anymore. They see the they're seeing the dirty underbelly
of that party. And it's not the entire I'll be

(04:45):
the first to tell you most Democrats don't feel the
same way that this fringe group, this extreme group does her.
And I can't remember some of these people's names offhand
because they don't really dwell on them that much. Also
in her book, By the Way, Harris called the twenty
twenty four presidential election the closest since two thousand, closest

(05:08):
in the twenty first century. Not true at all. The
two thousand election closer twenty twenty elections closer, both won
by narrower margins. But hey, no sense letting the facts
get in the way of a good narrative. Huh, it's
frustrating to see the confidence with which these people go
ahead and just lie right to your face. She lied

(05:31):
in the book, and that book's going to be there
forever still holding that lie. But people who believe everything
that Kamala Harris says will believe that she was indeed
that person who who had the nearest miss from becoming president,
which was not true. Rather than return to the air
this week humbly, maybe with a side of remorse, a

(05:53):
late night host Jimmy Kimmel opted to blame President Trump
and all kinds of things for his involuntary vacation. He
was suspended, by the way. He wasn't fired, he was suspended,
and his suspension has been lifted, But not all of
the affiliates who formerly showed his program are showing it.
Yet they probably will over time, provided that Jimmy Kimmel

(06:19):
more carefully chooses his words. I was kind of trying
to do that myself. I didn't want to say something
that was foolish or ridiculous. But he just needs to
be a little bit more careful and a little bit
more sensitive. And we all really do. In one way
or another. Almost all of us have said something in
anger maybe that we regret saying. But most of what

(06:40):
he says on television is deliberate and scripted and could
be changed at any time by him, because he is,
after all, the hosts of the show. But he chooses
to just say what's on the cards, I guess, or
whatever is whatever he's feeling. That's even worse if he's
not reading it. Maybe that'd be somebody else's idea. All

(07:03):
he did was I don't think he's changed, honestly. I
think it'll just be a matter of time before that
comes back. He just got caught up on his sleep,
That's what he did. That whole bunch still doesn't get it.
They still don't realize why Carson was so successful in
our era. It was because he never talked politics. He
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Speaker 1 (09:08):
Yeah, they sure don't make them like they used to.
That's why every few months we wash him, check his fluids,
and spring on a fresh cod O wax. This is
fifty plus with Doug Pike. Welcome back to fifty plus.
Thanks as always for listening.

Speaker 3 (09:21):
We'll talk in this segment as I previewed on Facebook
earlier today, about gynecological cancers, who they impact most, and
what can be done to treat them. And with that,
I'll introduce doctor comfort UGANZI Board certified OBGYN with more
than seventeen years experience and an assistant professor at McGovern

(09:42):
Medical School. Welcome aboard, doctor, Thank you, I appreciate it,
Oh my pleasure. I usually start with definitions, but in
this case I want to ask for a number. So
how many different gynecological cancers are there?

Speaker 2 (09:57):
So there's five that we typically consider so there's ovarian, uterine, vaginal,
all of aar, and cervical.

Speaker 3 (10:05):
Is there one that's kind of at the top of the.

Speaker 2 (10:07):
List, The most common one is uterant Okay, Serpical cancer
is very common as well, So cervical and uterine are
the top ones.

Speaker 3 (10:17):
And so what's the average age at which one of
these things tends to first appear?

Speaker 2 (10:23):
So it depends on the type. So cervical cancer, unfortunately
is seen in more of the younger people, especially people
who are not seeking care, can be seen I've seen
as young as twenties thirties, but typically is older into
the forties to sixties range. Ovarian cancer is usually in
the sixties to seventies. Uterine cancer as well, and vaginal

(10:46):
involvar usually sixties to seventies.

Speaker 3 (10:48):
Are these cancers typically very fast growing, slow growing, or
kind of in the middle.

Speaker 2 (10:53):
So cervical cancer is pretty slow growing, which is good,
which is why we can typically find it way ahead
of time and be able to catch it, treat it,
and prevent it from growing. So that's very helpful. Some
of the other ones, bolvar, vaginal, uterine are kind of
in between. It just depends on the aggressiveness of it.

(11:14):
Ovarian cancer is kind of in the middle. But ovarian
cancer is very difficult to find, and so a lot
of women, by the time they notice symptoms, it's pretty
far advanced.

Speaker 3 (11:24):
That's just so troubling to hear that kind of news,
but everybody needs to hear it so they can do better.
And as with any other cancers, I guess I'm pretty
sure early detection really important. What symptoms or other indications
are there that might show up first. If one of
these is in there, that's a good question.

Speaker 2 (11:41):
So it's very important that women just pay attention to
their bodies and seek help if they notice that something
is abnormal. Some of the symptoms can be a little
bit vague, you know, for ovarian cancer, if you feel
like just feeling bloated all the time, feeling like you
can't eat as much, and abdominal pain, very non specific.

(12:02):
It could be anything. But if you notice those things,
it's very helpful to just go get checked out, just
to make sure it's not ovarian cancer. Some of the
other ones, such as uterine cancer, abnormal bleeding, especially bleeding
after menopause. Any bleeding after menopause has to be investigated.
Very very important.

Speaker 3 (12:20):
Doctor comfort Ganzi on fifty plus. Here let's talk about
risk factors. I'm guessing family history is a big red flag, right.

Speaker 2 (12:27):
Absolutely, especially for the ovarian cancer. Family history of ovarian
cancer or breast cancer, those are kind of linked together.
Those increase the risk of that. Also, risk factors can
include some people who like early on when they were
having periods by very irregular periods, that is actually a

(12:47):
risk factor for a uterine cancer. And then also not
going to the doctor. So not getting because you know,
pap smears help to catch cervical cancer before it even
comes cancer, So people who don't see a gynecologist don't
get regular checkups. That is a risk factor for actually
having frink cancer.

Speaker 3 (13:07):
Do any of these gynecological cancers grow asymptomatically, just just
don't know it until you know.

Speaker 2 (13:13):
It, absolutely, And that's why it's important to see again
gynecologists on a regular basis because that's how that's how
people find it. I would say the majority of the
time that I have patients with cervical cancer vaginal cancer,
they don't have symptoms and so I find it during
an exam. So it's very important to get regular exams.

Speaker 3 (13:33):
My research that I got there are the questions and
comments I got earlier today noted that lifestyle might be
important to talk about with these.

Speaker 2 (13:44):
It can be. So smoking increases the risk of some
of these cancers. So you know, we say all the
time smoking is not great for you, and it's in
this case that's that holds true as well. So smoking also,
you know, being being overweight, being obese actually increases the
risk of uterine cancer. So you know, just exercising, trying

(14:06):
to be at an ideal body weight helps you decrease
the chance of that cancer.

Speaker 3 (14:11):
So first, I'm guessing you to highly recommend also that
a woman share everything relevant to her health with her doctor. Right.

Speaker 2 (14:19):
Yes, it's very important to find a guynecologist that you trust,
that you can talk with, that has time to listen
to you, so that you can just go through everything
that's going on. Even if you think it might not
be relevant, some things might be relevant. So just share
whatever's going on with you.

Speaker 3 (14:34):
In a routine exam, would would the doctor get tests
for all of these cancers or does the patient really
need to be proactive and asked for.

Speaker 2 (14:45):
So, we routinely will test for cervical cancer with the
path there we will ask questions to find out the
risk factors for some of the cancers such as uter
and cancer, we will on exam look for signs of
vaginal cancer involve our cancer. Ovarian cancer is more difficult.
There's no screenings for that at all.

Speaker 3 (15:03):
Well, oh my goodness, I hate hearing that. I do.

Speaker 2 (15:08):
How act we can signs A bit dam I'm sorry, Yeah, no.

Speaker 3 (15:12):
That's great. I'm glad to hear anything that you can
do to find these things. How often should women get tested?
And bear in mind we're talking about an audience mostly
of senior women here on this show, so how often
do the test come up?

Speaker 2 (15:26):
So I recommend seeing a gynecologist every year, That is
my recommendation. Now do the pap smears and those screenings
need to be done every year. No, so a woman
who can see me, I can do a pap smear.
Maybe the next year we can skip the pap smear
and just do an external exam, do an abdominal exam,
make sure that the ovaries are not in large. But

(15:47):
I recommend seeing a gynecologist every year.

Speaker 3 (15:50):
I recommend seeing that gynecologist and asking that gynecologist what
I should if this were my issue, what I should
be looking for at home rather than getting on the
internet and trying to figure out how to self diagnose
that way, right.

Speaker 2 (16:06):
Exactly, there's a lot so you don't have to be
an expert to put something on the internet. So it's
good to just talk somebody who is qualified, knows what
they're talking about. And honestly, for a lot of women,
especially older women, it's hard to examine yourself down there.
That becomes really important to see a gynecologist.

Speaker 3 (16:24):
Yeah, that I've almost every doctor I've interviewed his when
I've asked it says, just stay off the internet. You're
just going to find stuff that's not helpful and it
might take you down a really bad road. Doctor Comfort
of Ganzhi, thank you so very much. This has been
really informative and pretty sure I got a good crowd
for this one. Thank you.

Speaker 2 (16:42):
All right, no problems, all right, we.

Speaker 3 (16:45):
Got to take a little break on the way out.
U two Health Institute on Aging. I can guarantee you
if you needed to, you could find somebody to help
you out with that. Anything to do with gynecological cancers,
with heart problems, with lung problems, with GI problems, orthopedic problems,
you name, it there is somebody who is a member

(17:06):
of ut Health Institute on Aging, and it's plural people.
There are multiple people in almost every medical discipline who
are members of this esteemed organization of providers who have
gone back and gotten additional training on top of whatever
it took to get that diploma, so that they can
apply their knowledge specifically, more specifically certainly to seniors. And

(17:29):
that's us and that's a tremendous benefit that we have
over most seniors in this country. There are only a
handful of organizations like the Institute on Aging, probably none
of which are as good in my humble opinion, because
I've been working with these people for the better part
of ten plus years now, and all I've heard and

(17:49):
all i've learned is good is that they're pushing to
learn more, pushing to put more information on the website
so that all of us can get the exact treatment
we need from providers who know exactly what we need.
UT dot edu slash aging. Go there, look around, look
at all the resources you can find there, and then

(18:11):
come to know some of the providers through access that's
available in there. If you keep digging along enough, you'll
find any kind of doctor, you need to help you
with something that you just you're having a little trouble
with finding help elsewhere, mostly in the medical center, as
you might imagine, but many, many, many of those doctors
also come out and work in outlining clinics and hospitals
and whatnot. Utch dot Edu slash aging what's life without

(18:38):
a net? If I suggest you go to bed, leave
it off.

Speaker 1 (18:40):
Just wait until the show's over. Sleepy. Back to Dougpike
as fifty plus continues.

Speaker 3 (18:47):
Welcome back to fifty plus. Thanks for listening. Certainly do
appreciate it. We'll get back to some new stuff if
you don't mind. From Florida, I'll give you this story.
I saw it this morning. There's a guy accused now
of driving his car at pretty good speed, well above
the posted a limit, hitting a young mother on her

(19:08):
bicycle and dragging her for blocks, killing her before he
kind of shook her off the car somehow and then
fled the scene. They caught this guy didn't take long either.
There were lots of witnesses. They caught him, and he's
got a rap sheet. Imagine that that includes a twenty
twenty four DUI that was relieved not released, but reduced

(19:33):
by the way, how convenient for him to a charge
of reckless driving. Then from court records, it also shows
that they did it so his bond could be reduced,
which made it easier for him to get back out
on the road and do something again. And guess what,

(19:54):
in twenty twenty one, he had another hit and run
charge against him, and now he's back in jail, and
the judge this time in twenty twenty five isn't showing
this guy any mercy, and I don't frankly think he
deserves much after what he's been doing. After finding him

(20:14):
a danger to the community. She's denied bond on the
two charges of vehicular manslaughter. I think it is, and
there was an I think there was an associated dui
and no that there's bond been placed for the dui
manslaughter charge at seven hundred and fifty thousand. I guess
it was two yet lesser charges that she just said,

(20:37):
we're just going to deny you bond on those. But
this guy's gonna have to come up with a pretty
good chunk of change to be able to go out
and do something stupid again and maybe hurt somebody else.
It's just it's remarkable to me how many big cities
especially have problems with criminals just repeating and repeating and

(20:58):
repeating what they do wrong and only rarely getting caught.
That's the big problem, as I was told, and I
talked about it before by one of my good friends actually,
who spent twenty five years and change at HPD, and
explained to me that criminals, criminals of this ilk, the

(21:19):
ones who are repeat offenders, are repeating their offenses almost
daily because that's how they live, that's how they support themselves.
And so unless they get put in jail and left
in jail, they're just going to come right back out
and start up again. Very frustrating, very frustrating. This woman

(21:39):
left a small child without a mother all because this
guy just couldn't quit drinking and drying. I saw an
interesting piece yesterday about Erica Kirk, the woman so many
liberals accused of being nothing more than a pretty face
and mother to the children of the late Charlie Kirk,

(22:01):
whom they accused of being misogynistic. By the way, it
turns out, he didn't pick just a pretty face. Erica
Kirk was an athlete, an excellent student in college and
high school. I would imagine to get what she's got.
She's earned multiple post grad degrees from very well known universities,

(22:21):
including a juris master degree and doctorate in Christian Leadership
from Liberty University. She's currently studying, along with becoming CEO
of Turning Point, USA, by the way, currently studying for
her doctorate in Biblical studies. She's very successful, she earns
her own money, and neither of those things really fit

(22:44):
the mold of what the left claims her to be.
You just you don't see that in mainstream bios of her.
She's a remarkably successful woman, and the two of them
got along fantastically. They or they looked forward to raising
their family together, and now all because of some guy

(23:05):
who whose mind wasn't where it needed to be, that
whole dream they had is shattered. At Georgetown University, by
the way, some there's a there's a left wing this
is almost oxy moronic. A left wing gun club. Okay,
that posted, and that's hey, it's a it's a campus organization,

(23:29):
and there's very little restriction on campus organizations, although I
think there might need to be some in this case
because what they did was post uh post post well
flyers tacked them to a fence posts or whatever that
carried the words of Charlie Kirk's alleged assassin, as was
written on his at least one of his rifle cartridges.

(23:53):
It's a small group. This is out of a Fox
News story. It's a kind of a small group. But
it's also said to have ties, and can take this
for what it's worth and do some research ties to violence.
I just can't help but believe that young people who
would condone and even celebrate the deliberate killing of anyone

(24:13):
on either side of politics, they weren't brought up that way.
And that only leaves one place where they might have
been groomed to hate people who disagree with them, and
that's higher education. Higher education in California states state, that's
hemorrhaging residents, like rats off a sinking ship, which it is,
by the way. Another crashing grab, what do they call it?

(24:36):
I think it's crashing grab something like that, or smashing
grab robbery. Almost twenty masked thieves hit a jewelry store
and got out with about a million dollars in merchandise.
So police caught seven of them pretty quickly, and my
gut says at least one or two of those seven
might rat out the rest to save his or her skin.

(24:56):
The police chased some of the getaway cars. They had
six cars lined up ready to go for everybody to
dive in and let's go. But the chase was called
off when the speeds hit more than one hundred miles
an hour. Guess what, the bad guys know how fast
they have to go for the dispatcher whoever else is

(25:17):
in charge of a chase to call it off, and
they use that information with zero regard for the risk
they impose on everybody in their way. Let's get it
out on some road somewhere and get her up to
about one hundred and ten and they'll leave us alone.
And that's exactly what happened. And so they got away
with close to a million dollars a million dollars worth

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real job. Fifty five percent of them think that's a
real job. All of us, only twelve percent think it's
a real job, probably because about twelve percent of us
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Old guys rule, And of course women never get old
if you want to avoid sleeping on the couch. Hell,
I think that sounds like a good plan. Fifty plus
continues here's more with Doug. Welcome back to fifty plus.
Thanks for listening. Certainly do appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (27:51):
A little bit of light here in the dark. So
there's so much weird stuff going on. It's really frustrating,
really really frustrating. By the way, let's do some straight
up good news. An eleven year old girl from Ohio
able after a long, long hospital stent eight months in

(28:11):
the hospital, specifically waiting for an increasingly desperately needed heart transplant.
Young Ava Cooper recently was able to make that call
and let her parents know that there was a transplant
available and that she was going to be coming back
home where she belongs. Spent eleven or excuse me, eight

(28:36):
months in the hospital. Eight months and back in March
is when she got to make that call. And I believe,
if my memory serves, that she was booted out of
the hospital and wished well just recently, not that long ago.
So happy, happy news for her. There was one more.

(28:58):
I'll stand off on this one until I get back
to it. There's something I wanted to bring up about baseball,
and yes, I'm fully aware that the Astros' chances of
making the playoffs are going out the window. And it's
not it's certainly not Joe's spot is fault that half
the team got hurt throughout the season and we're gone

(29:21):
for extended periods of time. Some of the injuries I
understand take a long time to heal. Some of the
injuries I don't understand why they took so long to heal.
And that actually started last year with Kyle Tucker and
him being out for half the season or whatever it was.
And then now Jordan Alvarez and I know, I get it,

(29:43):
it hurts, but the team needed you. And I don't
know exactly what the issue was with that thumb, and
I'm no doctor, but I do know that back in
the Stone Ages, when I played baseball, when we were
using a log and a boulder as ball in bat man,
if you could, if you tie your own shoes and

(30:05):
stand up, you were expected to be on the field.
And I just I don't understand. I do understand it. Actually,
the the investment these teams make in these players is
so great now that they have to be careful. They
have to protect the long term investment, even if it
means just abandoning an entire season of baseball, because they
know that by next spring a lot of us will

(30:29):
have allowed our short sports memories to forget about this
and be all excited again. So I hope that works out. Anyway,
I got off topic. So a Cleveland Guardian's pinch hitter,
guy named David Fry in a batter's box I believe
it was last night, and he squares around a bunt

(30:49):
and the pitcher a guy named Erik Scruble fires off
a ninety nine mile an hour fastball that misses Fry's
bat but doesn't miss his face. Ninety nine miles an
hour and that baseball. They're not exactly sponges, and baseball

(31:09):
broke some facial bones. But the news, the good news
is the guy is expected to recover after a while.
The bad news is he won't be. It'll be a
while before he's comfortable standing there facing up on ninety
nine mile an hour fastballs when the coach tells him
to bun again. But my concern really is with more
and more pitchers reaching that one hundred mile an hour

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and exceeding actually up at one o two, one o three.
I think there's a one oh five, recently five miles
an hour on pitches delivered by the way from roughly
what fifty two feet or so. The actual mound is
sixty feet six inches, but by the time the pitcher
presses forward off that mound, his release point is several

(31:53):
feet many feet in big tall pitchers, uh sit way,
it's closer between fifty and fifty two feet, probably accounting
for where the hand let's go of the baseball. My
concern is whether the hitters are going to need a
little bit of additional face protection. I don't want to
move the mound back. I think that's kind of silly,

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but I do want to see a little bit more
protective gear for a baseball that is arriving in less
than half a second, barely half a second. I think
it was point five to two seconds from the fifty
two foot mark that I pegged it at and getting
hit that it's just so common nowadays because all the
players are wearing all this protective gear their elbow, their hand,

(32:39):
they've got protection for what else, just everywhere, pretty much
everywhere on their bodies. They've got for their foot, for
their shin all of these places where a baseball might
hit them. They've got full protection armor, if you will.
And so that just encourages them to lean in. And
that makes the pitchers mad because they don't want to

(33:01):
give up hit by pitch walks. Just because a guy
kind of leaned in and let that let that elbow
guard take the full brunt of a curveball, that that
boils pitcher's blood. Believe me, So, I don't know what
we're gonna do. I got hit by a lot of
pitches growing up when I was playing baseball. None in
a one hundred miles an hour, not even in college

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and none in the face, not even there. I doubt
we'll see it, but with virtually no protection for the mouth,
the nose, and the eyes except that little jaw flap
on the side of the helmet, which really, if you
turn just the least little bit, it's not gonna do
you any good. And if you're you're flinching when you
see something coming at you that fast, you don't have
time to say, oh, man, I bet I better position

(33:44):
my my chin guard my jaw guard just in case
it hits me. No, they're just trying to get out
of the way. Maybe it'd be I don't know, it
might be a good idea to put a little bit
more protection on there. And I would hate to see
Major League Baseball players wearing metal asks to protect their faces.
But if it's a metal mask of some sort like

(34:05):
softball players wear, and it keeps you from having to
have surgery to fix your eye socket and your eyeball,
that's that'd be a small price to pay as far
as I'm concerned. All right, well, let's soften it up
even more and go to let's see here a man

(34:26):
in Korea pop quiz. Will will you you? Will you
give me a number, or I'll give you a thumbs
up or thumbs down. A man in career was arrested
for calling the police nearly sixty thousand times with nonsense
complaints in one spree, just one spree, when he called
the police, I'm gonna say how many times in four

(34:48):
days because he was upset about getting sighted again earlier
for making too many false reports? Did he call them
more than two hundred times, more than one thousand times,
or more than eighteen hundred times. That'll be a B
or C. You're correct, one thousand, eight hundred and eighty

(35:10):
two times he called the police. He needs to be
in jail. We don't. We're gonna go out and get
some sunshine. Thank you for listening. We'll be back tomorrow
to wrap up the week. I hope you have a
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