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Last year, more than 1.3 million new cases of cancer were diagnosed in the United States. According to the American Cancer Society, more than 50,000 of these individuals were diagnosed with kidney cancer.

These patients are fighting for their lives.  And their fight may get harder.
 
The Congressional super committee that was formed last summer to get the federal budget under control is preparing to submit a plan next month that may include cuts to Medicare Part B - the program that enables tens of thousands of kidney cancer patients to access the vital cancer treatments they require.  The lawmakers on this committee must take these dangerous cuts off the table now.

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