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kidney cancer  

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  • Kidney cancer accounts for about two percent of cancers in the United States, as of the year 2007. According to the Mayo Clinic, two-thirds of kidney cancer cases are in people over 60 years of age. [Source: Encyclopedia of Global Health; Kidney Cancer]

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  • renal cell cancer

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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/kidney_cancer

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