Sentences with phrase «as die from cancer»

Another troubling statistic is that three times as many dogs die as a result of behavior problems as die from cancer — and no one would argue that cancer is a minor league problem.

The most amazing thing I have EVER done was to sit holding the hand of my wife as she died from cancer at the age of 42.

Not exact matches

Simon, who died from colon cancer in March, was best known as co-creator of the Fox animated comedy, «The Simpsons,» the longest - running sitcom in American television.

On the other hand, close to as much as 29 times that amount — 1 million people — die of cancer every year from smoking tobacco.

Both have passed on, with Turkel dying of a heart attack in 2009 and Kail passing away from lung cancer in 2013, but their reputation as the industry's most revered sales duo remains intact.

As my husband laid dying from cancer, I told him he could let go.

My brother is dying slowly and painfully, from what he refers to as «cancer of the everything.»

You said, «As someone who is dying from pancreatic cancer, I can tell you now, the last thing on my mind is am I going to live forever with Christ.»

Disease, as in the very few people who have smoking related cancer or death, and the one or two who die from drugs, and the other one from alcohol, they need education.

My dear friend who died in less than 18 months from aggressive breast cancer was told by the vicar to apologise to the church committee about a minor matter or «consider her future as a member» (I helped her prepare her reply and told her that she couldn't say what she wanted to say, she was insistent but I was emphatic «it's not the content....

One of our good friends who is 95 married a straight woman, stayed married to her for over 50 years and nursed her as she lay dying from cancer.

Hasker's third proposition is that for the problem of divine non-intervention to be a real problem, «we must be able to identify specific kinds of cases in which God morally ought to intervene but does not» Many critics of (traditional) theism probably already have a more or less vague list of such cases, which might include genocidal events, such as the Nazi holocaust and the Rwandan massacre; wars; large - scale natural disasters; conditions of chronic poverty, in which millions of children die from starvation or are permanently stunted because of inadequate protein; the sexual molestation of children, which often leaves them psychologically scarred for the rest of their lives; death preceded by long, painful illnesses, such as cancer or AIDS, or by mind - destroying conditions, such as Alzheimer's disease; and the kinds of events described by Dostoyevski, such as the soldier using his pistol to get a mother's baby to giggle with delight and then blowing its brains out.

He died from lymphatic cancer that is prevelant among celiacs who do not watch their diets (he was never as careful as he should have been).

He'd been crying for 77 miles as he pulled clear of the field, thinking of how he'd almost died from drug addiction and from cancer and remembering all the people who had supported him and the ones who had given up on him.

Nelson died from complications of bladder cancer in 2004 and we know how much he meant to Bruce as well.

JAMES GAMMON Lent his gravelly, tough - as - nails voice to dozens of TV shows (Grey's Anatomy, Nash Bridges) and movies (Wyatt Earp, Cold Mountain) before dying in 2010 from cancer of the adrenal glands and liver.

The reality is not «gentle proteins», cute pink hearts or «probiotics just like those in breastmilk» but dirty contaminated bottles, diarrhea, babies screaming with pain from otitis media, babies separated from their mothers in pediatric wards with acute respiratory disease, damaged guts that morph into chronic lifelong conditions such as Crohn's disease, more women dying of breast cancer, the cost and pain of living a life with diabetes and lives cut short because of cardiac disease and so on.

Thirteen New York law enforcement officers, as well as a New York State Trooper who died in 2011 from 9 / 11 - linked cancer, were added to the New York State Fair's law enforcement memorial.

Annually, more than 1 million people die prematurely from tobacco - induced diseases such as lung cancer and cardiovascular diseases.

My host tending to her dying father (suffering from oesophagus cancer) as he spat blood into newspaper scraps.

Amy Paulin, an Assemblywoman from Westchester, is sponsoring a bill to allow what's become known as Aid in Dying, after the wrenching experience of her sister's battle with stage four ovarian cancer.

GEDDES, N.Y. - Thirteen New York law enforcement officers, as well as a New York State Trooper who died in 2011 from 9 / 11 - linked cancer, were added to the New York State Fair's law enforcement memorial.

One floor below Dr. Bett's office, Dr. Kate Rittenhouse Olson is leading a company known as For Robin, named in memory of her sister, who died several years ago from breast cancer.

But it is not some kind of Star Trek heaven — where a young, brilliant researcher with a bright idea today can save her old grandfather from dying of lung cancer 6 months later — as it is frequently portrayed by the media.

It's about the same as the number of people who die from arteriosclerosis, and more than the number who die from cancer of the kidney.

We have investigated the link between diabetes and the risk of developing as well as the risk of dying from these cancers,» she will say.

If we know that, statistically, 80 percent of people who have a certain cancer will die from that cancer, does that significantly decrease their value as human beings?

«About half of all smokers die from emphysema, cancer or other problems related to smoking, so we need to remember that as complicated as it can be to treat mental health issues, smoking cigarettes also causes very serious illnesses that can lead to death,» she explained.

In one lung cancer study, the most telling observation was that for those getting screened regularly, the rate of cancer detection was almost the same in smokers as it was in nonsmokers — even though we know that smokers face about a 20-fold increased risk of dying from lung cancer.

Men who had smoked were nearly twice as likely to die from cancer, especially lung cancer, but there was also an elevated risk of death from cancers of the head and neck, esophagus, stomach, colorectum, liver, pancreas and bladder — all diseases that have been linked to smoking in previous studies, according to the authors.

The skinny on fat: Too little is more dangerous than too much Overweight people are at no greater risk than normal - weight folks of dying from heart disease or cancer and are actually less likely to fall prey to some other causes of death, such as accidents and Alzheimer's, according to freshly analyzed data on 2.3 million adults 25 years and older as of 2004.

Risk of dying from cancer, for instance, fell as people ate more cruciferous vegetables, such as broccoli, although this finding came from only a few studies that investigated the benefits of particular types of produce.

The drug, known as HRX9, works by preventing the cancer cells from avoiding apoptosis — the natural process by which unhealthy and damaged cells close themselves down and die.

A man whom his doctors referred to as «Mr. Wright» was dying from cancer of the lymph nodes.

Congress designated January as Cervical Health Awareness Month, and the American Cancer Society estimated that nearly 13,000 American women would be diagnosed with invasive cervical cancer in 2016, with more than 4,000 women dying from the diCancer Society estimated that nearly 13,000 American women would be diagnosed with invasive cervical cancer in 2016, with more than 4,000 women dying from the dicancer in 2016, with more than 4,000 women dying from the disease.

Table 1 also reports the percentage of spouses who died within a year after their own hospitalization; as expected, the diseases show substantial variation in lethality, with one - year death rates varying from 7.3 percent (for women with psychiatric disease) to 82.0 percent (for men with pancreatic cancer).

New research points to a clue on why black men are twice as likely to die from prostate cancer than white men.

The number of people in Bangladesh dying from chronic diseases such as cancer, diabetes and hypertension — long considered diseases of the wealthy because the poor didn't tend to live long enough to develop them — increased dramatically among the nation's poorest households over a 24 - year period, suggests new research from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

According to recent research, the most common solid tumors (that is, cancer that occurs as clusters of cells in or on organs, rather than in liquid form within the blood or lymphatic system) have up to 66 mutations that influence how the cancer cells operate — how fast they divide, whether they are susceptible to the signals that would normally cause a cell to die, when they detach from the main tumor to colonize another organ in the body, when and where they attach blood vessels to healthy tissues.

Black men in the United States still have nearly twice the lifetime probability of dying from prostate cancer as white men.

«We are committing everything we have, every resource at our disposal, to developing the therapies that will improve the lives of the millions of people worldwide who live with the hepatitis B virus every day, as well as the risk of dying prematurely from its most fatal consequence, liver cancer.»

But inequities between sub-populations in San Francisco were dramatic when expressed as rates, particularly for the African - American community where men have a 63 percent higher incidence and are more than twice as likely to die from prostate cancer as white men, the authors reported.

June 13, 2011 James B. Nachman, MD, 1948 - 2011 Pediatric cancer specialist James B. Nachman, MD, professor of pediatrics at the University of Chicago — affectionately known as «Doc Nach» — died Friday, June 10, from a suspected heart attack while on a rafting trip in the Grand Canyon.

Although the odds of getting certain cancers can be higher in certain populations — for example, those who smoke are approximately 20 times more likely to develop lung cancer as those who don't smoke — the ACS estimates that the average woman has a one in three chance of developing cancer and a one in five chance of dying from cancer.

According to the Canadian Cancer Organization, as of 2013, 955 Canadian women were diagnosed with other and unspecified female genital organ cancers, and 280 Canadian women died from these!

Living together with a cigarette smoker increases the chance of dying from lung cancer and heart disease, and in children smoke exposure increase the severity of the intensity of asthma attacks and leads to in excess of 750,000 middle ear infections, as reported by the American Cancer Socancer and heart disease, and in children smoke exposure increase the severity of the intensity of asthma attacks and leads to in excess of 750,000 middle ear infections, as reported by the American Cancer SoCancer Society.

According to autopsy studies in Japan, they've got just as much prostate cancer as we do, but the rate of Japanese men dying from prostate cancer is one tenth that of American men, till they start eating like us.

That study that purported to show that diets high in meat, eggs, and dairy could be as harmful to health as smoking supposedly suggested that people under 65 who eat lots of meat, eggs, and dairy are four times as likely to die from cancer or diabetes.

Research has shown that supplementing with selenium, an essential trace mineral, can cut your risk of dying from cancer by a very significant margin — as high as 50 percent, in some studies.

Sadly, plenty of vegans suffer or have died from heart disease, as well as cancer, diabetes and other serious health problems.