In the early 1900's few people talked
about cancer because only 1 out of every 30 persons developed cancer.
Not exact matches
«I feel more rewarded
about Flatiron, beyond the money potentially everyone could make over time,
because of the fact that we're actually making a difference in
cancer,» he said.
As Diamond says, «For every 1,000 men who get regularly screened for prostate
cancer,
about 20 % of them will end up getting unneeded biopsies or even have their prostate unnecessarily removed
because the data is wrong.»
However,
because the way
cancer develops in the body is extremely complex, one's
cancer risk isn't just
about what we put in our mouths, cars, and lungs.
«I was asking him
about his business,» Bergh relates, «and he was telling me his back story,
because cancer has affected his family life directly.»
I never worried
about him
because he seemed so robust until, of course, that dreadful moment when he was first felled by
cancer.
I asked my sister in Christ to pray for a little boy with very serious
cancer and she said she didn't need to hear that
because her grown son has a fractured rib and she is very worried
about him.
A mechanic doesn't complain
about fixing your car
because you didn't take care of it, a heart surgeon doesn't complain
about your heart attack
because you ate too many cheese burgers and a doctor treating lung
cancer doesn't complain
about all the cigarettes you smoked to get yourself some
cancer.
People are developing lung
cancer today
because they were exposed to asbestos particles in and around shipyards during World War II.26 Technology creates environmental dangers, and knowing
about these dangers confronts us with problems; we must make choices that did not exist before.
Is it more reasonable to think that life came
about at this time, at this place,
because of the circu mstances of this place at this time or that a unknown, unknowable, omniscient, omnipresence, being from another time, space and reality and is totally outside of our universal knowledge of everything somehow, for reasons that no one can or ever will know created you along with
cancer.
Logically, that is the exact same argument as saying
because some non-smokers in my family got lung
cancer, and
because I have a great great aunt that lived to 100 without getting lung
cancer while smoking two packs a day, I don't really have to worry
about lung
cancer if I start smoking, using smoking as an indicator of
cancer risk is garbage.
We always talk to our little guy
about how strong his Nana is for beating
cancer, and that she is here
because she worked so hard to see him.
You have probably heard a number of rumors
about the effects of technology on your health; that having a cell phone next to your head can cause brain
cancer, for example, or that pregnant women shouldn't stand near a microwave that is running
because it may harm the fetus.
Also, she had reservations
about the solar farm
because «no one could tell her solar panels didn't cause
cancer.»
For kids, many parents also try to avoid products with bisphenol - A (BPA)
because of concerns
about its potential to mimic estrogen, lead to reproductive problems, increase the risk of
cancer and interfere with brain development and fat metabolism.
But,
because we worry (and rightly so)
about skin
cancer, we shield our skin from the sun's ultraviolet light with clothing and sunscreen, which makes it impossible for our bodies to manufacture Vitamin D. Breast milk was never meant to be the source of vitamin D for our babies (as we are all intended to make our own vitamin D with exposure to sunlight), but as we continue to be cautious
about exposure to sunlight, babies do not make enough Vitamin D, nor do they receive enough in breast milk.
Camp Kesem is very near and dear to her heart
because she aspires to be an oncologist and she fell in love as soon as she read
about Camp Kesem's mission
because her mom had breast
cancer while she was growing up and knows how much she would have benefited if she had been able to go to a camp like Kesem.
I joined Camp Kesem
because it brings together all the things I'm most passionate
about: kids, summer camp, and the fight against
cancer.
But Nestlé has no shame — the following year, when the Guardian newspaper reported that Breakthrough Breast
Cancer had refused a # 1 million donation from Nestlé on ethical grounds, Nestlé sent a letter to the newspaper dismissing criticism of its baby food marketing and claimed it was a force for good in the world, citing the donation made to Ethiopia — of course, it did not mention that that the donation came
about not
because of Nestlé altruism, but
because of campaign protest.
what a great post, as a mom to a girl who is now 11 years old, and got
cancer when she was 8 months and i had started to go down with her breasfeeding, but then she had too start kemotherapy, and all she would take was the breast, so we went on, but now thinking back, i relly had to struggle whith the hospital personal
because the thougth she was getting too old for it, (she had kemo for 2 years) but we went on several years, and i remember that i almost hide it, only the closed family new, thats sad too think
about, so this is very refreshing to read.
How
about the people dying of
cancer because we have saturated our environment with chemicals?
After I was done nursing, however, I noticed that my nipple had become inverted and after properly panicking and freaking myself out
about the fact that introverted nipples are a sign of
cancer (
because they are), I had them checked out.
But Cuomo has yet to set foot in Hoosick Falls, where
about 4,000 people can't drink their water
because it contains a toxic chemical linked to
cancer and other serious health problems.
The state teaches
about the ill effects of smoking
because it's the NHS that has to clear up the
cancer that results.
Massa, in the statement Friday, said he had already decided to quit
because of concerns
about cancer before he learned that a staffer had complained to the Ethics panel.
Think
about what's happening here in Manchester, projects to rebuild 10,000 homes in run - down areas axed, # 560m of transport schemes scrapped, sweeping cuts at Bolton, Salford, Trafford and Rochdale councils, 150 firefighter jobs at risk in Greater Manchester Fire Service, # 7m of cuts in the police force, up to 1,000 NHS admin jobs in danger and a local breast
cancer helpline, that has taken 80,000 calls since it was set up,
about to be closed,
because health trusts will no longer foot the # 63,000 annual running cost,» he said.
Women who have had breast
cancer are often told they should think twice
about having a child
because pregnancy could worsen their disease.
About 15 to 20 % of breast
cancers are classified as «triple negative,» so called
because these tumors do not express three key proteins that are biomarkers and / or drug targets for breast
cancer: the estrogen receptor, the progesterone receptor, and HER2 (a member of the epidermal growth factor receptor family).
Cancer is often talked about in terms of years in remission rather than cure because there is still the creeping concern that the cancer will one day resu
Cancer is often talked
about in terms of years in remission rather than cure
because there is still the creeping concern that the
cancer will one day resu
cancer will one day resurface.
Because there was only one other published case report
about a child with M. velutinosus — a 1 - year - old with brain
cancer who had undergone a bone marrow transplant — Kumar notes that he and colleagues were at a loss as to how best to treat their patient.
«As someone who researches pancreatic
cancer, I think this discovery is significant because it defines mechanisms that lead to this cancer in ways that we didn't know about before,» says Firpo, who's also a member of the Pancreas Cancer Research Program and Experimental Therapeutics Program at the University of Utah's Huntsman Cancer Inst
cancer, I think this discovery is significant
because it defines mechanisms that lead to this
cancer in ways that we didn't know about before,» says Firpo, who's also a member of the Pancreas Cancer Research Program and Experimental Therapeutics Program at the University of Utah's Huntsman Cancer Inst
cancer in ways that we didn't know
about before,» says Firpo, who's also a member of the Pancreas
Cancer Research Program and Experimental Therapeutics Program at the University of Utah's Huntsman Cancer Inst
Cancer Research Program and Experimental Therapeutics Program at the University of Utah's Huntsman
Cancer Inst
Cancer Institute.
Half of multiple myeloma patients diagnosed in the earliest stage of the disease don't survive beyond
about five years after initial treatment
because the
cancer becomes resistant to treatments.
The European Medicines Agency reported that it was unlikely to approve lorcaserin
because of concerns
about possible
cancers, psychiatric disorders and heart valve problems, prompting the manufacturer to withdraw its application.
Yet despite all the fanfare
about them, these drugs rarely cure anyone,
because cancer cells» high mutation rate allows them to dodge the pathway concerned.
Warren had found them in
about 20 patients who had been sent to him
because doctors thought they might have
cancer.
Infants delivered early
because of maternal health problems — such as preeclampsia,
cancer, or severe kidney disease — account for
about a third of all preterm births.
Although it is true that some aspects of modern life can increase
cancer, as Andy Coghlan in New Scientist put it, «most of them are down to poor lifestyle choices that people can do something
about, not, as implied,
because they are drowning in a sea of carcinogens from which there is no escape.»
But since then, disulfiram hasn't gotten much attention for treating
cancer, partly
because scientists disagreed
about how it worked.
«We are excited
about our results
because there are drugs that exist that specifically target Akt in
cancer.
Routine use of aspirin, NSAIDs, or both for chemoprevention of
cancer is not currently recommended
because of uncertainty
about risk - benefit profile.
Dogs diagnosed with bone
cancer often arrive at the clinic at a very advanced stage of the disease, whereas in humans, bone
cancer is usually detected early
because people complain
about the pain and have it investigated.
Paclitaxel - induced peripheral neuropathy affects the majority of treated patients; however, those who are most severely affected (
about 30 percent) have to terminate chemotherapy or reduce the dose
because of this condition, which can impact
cancer survival.
In breast
cancer research, the gene BRCA1 has received the lion's share of attention
because mutations in that gene are responsible for
about three percent of all cases of breast
cancer.
So when you're searching for answers
about cancer, you can't really talk
about one treatment,
because each type of
cancer has its own genetic signature, and what works well with one
cancer may have no effect on another type of
cancer.
And
because the type of
cancer is so rare — only
about 300 people are diagnosed each year worldwide — there were no standard treatment protocols.
Now, scientists at the Salk Institute have uncovered details
about how
cancer is able to become drug resistant over time, a phenomenon that occurs
because cancer cells within the same tumor aren't identical — the cells have slight genetic variation, or diversity.
And that is why
cancer genomics matters: not
because of the information, but
because of what the information tells us
about this disease, which is diagnosed in
about 12.7 million people worldwide every year.
In fact, the pathologist is cautious
about calling the Colombian's illness «
cancer»
because those cells were different from normal human
cancer cells, even though they behaved similarly.
Such a strategy mitigates concern
about publication bias
because the decision to publish was unrelated to the findings on smoking status and
cancer outcome.
«Those results we think are important
because they indicate that if we were to initiate a restricted diet in adult human beings, we would still get the beneficial effects without having to worry
about this issue of growth retardation,» said John Richie, professor of public health sciences and pharmacology at Penn State
Cancer Institute, who oversaw the review.