Sentences with phrase «lung cancer mortality rates»

Lung cancer mortality rates (per 100,000) during 2006 - 2010 ranged from 0.7 in Costa Rica to 14.8 in Hungary among young women and from 8.8 in Georgia to 120.0 in Scotland among older women.

Lung cancer mortality rates among young women (30 - 49 years) were stable or declining in 47 of the 52 populations examined.

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The importance of these neighbour proteins was also seen in other networks constructed for breast cancer, hepatocellular carcinoma and non-small cell lung cancer, other «solid» cancers where new drugs are needed to tackle high mortality rates.

By tracking the mortality rates of people exposed to arsenic - contaminated drinking water in a region in Chile, the researchers provide evidence of increases in lung, bladder, and kidney cancer even 40 years after high arsenic exposures ended.

Risk assessments estimate that lowering occupational exposure limits from the current to the proposed standard will reduce silicosis and lung cancer mortality to approximately one - half of the rates predicted under the current standard.

One of the fastest expanding types of cancer in the developed world, malignant melanoma has a high mortality rate — which is one reason that researchers at Sahlgrenska Academy were so anxious to follow up on the lung cancer studies.

Lung cancer is one of the tumors having higher mortality rates worldwide.

Now, on Nov. 5, a news story likened those findings to the results of a large trial by the National Cancer Institute, which showed that CT scans reduced mortality rates among the highest - risk lung cancer patients by 20 peCancer Institute, which showed that CT scans reduced mortality rates among the highest - risk lung cancer patients by 20 pecancer patients by 20 percent.

Cancer treatment has come on leaps and bounds in recent years, but mortality rates in lung and breast cancer are stillCancer treatment has come on leaps and bounds in recent years, but mortality rates in lung and breast cancer are stillcancer are still high.

For three of the most common cancers — lung, colorectal and prostate — incidence and mortality are decreasing for all ethnic groups, but African - Americans consistently have the highest rates for all three cancers;

It's estimated that if everyone who qualified for screening underwent these tests, the mortality rate from lung cancer could be decreased by 20 percent.

Cancer mortality rates have declined 19 % since 1950 (excluding lung caCancer mortality rates have declined 19 % since 1950 (excluding lung cancercancer).

Moreover, the paper gets its history wrong when it notes that «Total cancer mortality rates did not decline until 1990, 25 years after the identification of the effect of smoking on lung and other cancers...» Well, actually, it was more like 50 years, because the earliest studies to connect smoking and lung cancer were conducted not by NIH - funded scientists but by Nazi scientists in the run - up to World War II.4 By the logic of the PNAS paper, then, ought we to be crediting the Nazi health science agenda with whatever progress has been made on reducing lung cancer, rather than the incredibly protracted and difficult public health campaign (that, for the most part, NIH had nothing to do with) aimed at getting people to cut down on smoking?

At Stage III and IV, you're probably going to need to look into graded or guaranteed coverage, though even these can be difficult because of the mortality rates for patients of late stage lung cancer.