Cystic Fibrosis Case Letter

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Date: August 27, 2015 Isakson, Johnny (R-GA) 131 Russell Senate Office Building Washington DC 20510 (202) 224-3643 Dear Mr. Isakson: My name is Kinsie Carroll and I reside at 24 Duke Street Newnan, GA. I am a freshman at University of West Georgia. I am regarding the Ensuring Access to Clinical Trials Act of 2015 for Rare Diseases. H.R. 209 [114th] I am writing you to ask that you help pass the new bill. The cruel disease Cystic Fibrosis (a life-threatening, genetic disease that causes persistent lung infections and progressively limits the ability to breathe) effects about 30,000 people living with Cystic Fibrosis (70,000 worldwide), approximately 1,000 new cases of Cystic Fibrosis are diagnosed each year. In the past two years I have met