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You're never really cancer-free and I should have known that.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: April 16
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Basketball Coach
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New York
Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor
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Lew Alcindor
Cancer
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Never
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