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Athabaskan teen succumbs to cancer
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2002 A young resident of an Athabaskan village in Alaska died of cancer on Tuesday night. Roland Smoke of Stevens Village was 14. He was diagnosed with lymphoblastic lymphoma when he was 11. He loved basketball and country music -- George Jones and Hank Williams were his favorites, according to The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner. Get the Story:
Cancer claims life of Stevens Village teen (The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner 10/17)
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