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Cancer research emerges as potential bipartisan cause amid budget fight
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By Deirdre Walsh, CNN Senior Congressional Producer
Updated 6:19 AM ET, Wed June 21, 2017
Trump budget proposal could hurt many from his base

Earlier this year when the Trump administration included a roughly 20% budget cut to the National Institutes for Health it was ignored by the GOP-controlled Congress and the eventual budget deal that the President signed included a $2 billion boost for the agency in the final deal for part of 2017

http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/21/politics/pancreatic-cancer-research-congress-budget/index.html

Special focus of increasing $ cancer research and Pancreatic Cancer especially as it is:
1Pancreatic cancer is on track to become the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths by 2020.
2)Pancreatic cancer is one of the deadliest forms of cancer with a five-year survival rate of just 9%
3)Pancreatic received $121 million in 2017 from the National Cancer Institute, compared with $529 million for breast cancer, a disease that has significantly increased survival rates in recent years

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