Sentences with phrase «breast cancer deaths»
In 2010, 41 percent of breast cancer deaths occurred in the more than 19 million women who are between the ages of 65 to 84 years.
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Now, after studies have found that such exams do not reduce breast cancer death rates and actually increase the rate of unnecessary biopsies, many experts are recommending a more relaxed approach known as «breast awareness.»
In a prior study by this group, oophorectomy was also shown to reduce the risk of breast cancer by 48 percent in women with a BRCA1 mutation, and once diagnosed, lowered the risk of breast cancer death by 70 percent.
The number of breast cancer deaths in 2013 reported through the Pennsylvania Cancer Registry was about 2,070.
Non-Hispanic black (NHB) women «continued to have higher breast cancer death rates than [non-Hispanic white] women, with rates 39 % higher in NHB women in 2015, although the disparity has ceased to widen since 2011.»
One of the hundreds of fathers bereaved every year and left to raise young children alone because of breast cancer deaths called today (June 9) on family services — doctors, health visitors, schools and voluntary organisations — to be more alert to the needs of fathers.
Metastasis is responsible for 90 percent of breast cancer deaths despite significant improvements in diagnosis and treatments.
Most breast cancer deaths occur because the cancer has spread, or metastasized, which means that cells in the primary tumor have invaded blood vessels and traveled via the bloodstream to form tumors elsewhere in the body.
In rural China, for example, among women aged 35 to 64, Campbell found that breast cancer deaths averaged 8.7 per 100,000, as opposed to 44 per 100,000 in the United States.
Adoption of draft United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) breast cancer screening recommendations would result in thousands of additional and unnecessary breast cancer deaths each year.
These larger doses put them at risk for approximately 57 cases of breast cancer and 10 radiation - induced breast cancer deaths (per 100,000 women screened biennially, ages 50 to 74).
Annual screening from ages 40 to 74 increases these risks 5-fold, leading to 100 additional radiation - induced breast cancers and 12 additional breast cancer deaths compared with biennial screening from ages 50 to 74.
According to National Cancer Institute data, since mammography screening became widespread in the mid-1980s, the U.S. breast cancer death rate has dropped 35 percent.
After standardizing the Nordic Cochrane, USPSTF, and EUROSCREEN reviews to the scenario in the U.K. Independent Breast Screening Review, the magnitude of the difference between studies in the estimated number of women needed to be screened to prevent one breast cancer death dropped dramatically.
This year, Komen has set a goal to reduce breast cancer deaths by 50 percent in 10 years by, among other things, enhancing their focus on research to cure these forms of breast cancer and metastatic disease.
«Early MRI screening reduces risk of breast cancer death for survivors of childhood Hodgkin's lymphoma.»
Some good news in the war on breast cancer: «From 1989 to 2015, breast cancer death rates decreased by 39 %, which translates to 322,600 averted breast cancer deaths in the United States,» according to a new report published by the American Cancer Society.
Breast cancer death rate plunges nearly 40 %.
My granddaughter asked me yesterday if it was true that Romney was responsible for the breast cancer deaths of thousands of women.
If people could become more aware of this fact, then it could be possible to decrease a significant portion of the almost 20,000 breast cancer deaths each year.
This review investigated the effect of screening women in the United Kingdom for 20 years, from age 50 - 69, on breast cancer mortality from age 55 - 79, and estimated that 180 women needed to be screened to prevent one breast cancer death.
Specifically, the Nordic Cochrane review estimate for the number of women who must be screened to prevent one breast cancer death dropped from 2,000 to 257.
There is widespread debate in academic literature and the media about the absolute benefit of mammography screening, commonly defined as the number of women who must be screened to prevent one breast cancer death.
Despite that wide range, he says the takeaway is similar: Mammograms can not prevent every breast cancer death.
The debate reignited in February with a study published in the journal BMJ showing that screening mammography failed to reduce breast cancer deaths.
«Many of these are women who received radiotherapy to more normal tissue or at higher doses than are used currently, but even for more recently treated patients, screening should reduce the risk of breast cancer death.»
Notably, the use of MRI for screening improved the effectiveness considerably compared to mammography, reducing the number of women needing screening to prevent one breast cancer death to less than 80.
They found that using mammography about 260 survivors of childhood lymphoma would need to be invited to have early breast cancer screening to prevent one breast cancer death, which compares favorably to widely endorsed screening programs for average risk women aged 50 or older, which generally require 300 - 1,300 women to be invited to prevent one breast cancer death.
Insurance coverage has enabled this dramatic reduction in breast cancer deaths.
The radiation exposure from these screening exams, and any subsequent diagnostic workups, can cause 27 breast cancer cases and four breast cancer deaths.
The international team of researchers modeled the lifetime risk of women developing radiation - induced breast cancer from digital screening mammography and dying from the disease compared to the number of breast cancer deaths prevented by early detection.
To give you some perspective, the breast cancer death rate increased 0.4 percent between 1975 and 1989, so this is a huge jump.
That being said, although the gap has closed a bit, breast cancer death rates are in no way the same for black women and white women: In 2015, the breast cancer death rate was 39 percent higher for black women than white women, whereas in 2011 that number was 41 percent.
Despite the U.S. Preventative Services Task Force's 2009 recommendation that women start mammograms at age 50 (based on research suggesting there is a clearer benefit for older women), there's still good reason to go in at 40: A 2010 study of about 600,000 women in their 40s found that receiving mammos reduced their breast cancer death rate by 29 percent.
A new report released by the American Cancer Society has some good news for women everywhere: Between 1989 and 2015, the breast cancer death rate dropped nearly 40 percent, preventing 322,600 deaths.
Morbidly obese women have breast cancer death rates 3 times higher than those that are very lean.
Greece has the lowest percent of breast cancer deaths and the highest cheese consumption among EU countries.
Also noted is that in 2017, it is estimated that among U.S. women there will be 40,610 breast cancer deaths.
If you follow health news, you might have noticed some controversy over certain cancer - screening methods: Does the evidence support mammograms as a tool to reduce breast cancer deaths?