Sentences with phrase «cancer death rate»

In the Netherlands, Dietary Fiber intake was reported to be inversely related to total cancer deaths, as the 10 - year cancer death rate was approximately threefold higher in individuals with low fiber intake compared with high fiber intake (Kromhout et al., 1982).

In Japan, the ovarian cancer death rate declined 2 percent, the study found.

The analysis of World Health Organization data found that the ovarian cancer death rate fell 16 percent in the United States and almost 8 percent in Canada between 2002 and 2012.

In the European Union, the ovarian cancer death rate fell 10 percent, though some countries saw far more significant drops.

Although the Greenland Inuit are the world's heaviest cigarette smokers and although their consumption of fruits and vegetables has been virtually zero until recently and although they add lots of salt when they eat their fish, seal meat / blubber, and whale meat / blubber, the Greenland Inuit have only half the age - adjusted total cancer death rate of Americans and cardiovascular disease is virtually nonexistent among the Greenland Inuit: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9447397

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.

To give you some perspective, the breast cancer death rate increased 0.4 percent between 1975 and 1989, so this is a huge jump.

In a new study, a Danish - Czech - U.S. team found the cancer death rate was 34 % lower for patients in a massive cancer registry who stayed on the drug compared with those who started — but stopped — taking it, the researchers reported this week in Nature.

Of the more than 3000 patients taking Antabuse, the cancer death rate was 34 % lower for the 1177 who stayed on the drug compared with those who stopped taking it, the researchers report today in Nature.

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.

According to the National Cancer Institute, since mammography screening became widespread in the mid-1980s, the U.S. breast cancer death rate, unchanged for the previous 50 years, has dropped 36 percent.

These rates are more than double those in Spain, which has a lung cancer death rate among women of just over eight per 100,000.

Breast cancer death rate plunges nearly 40 %.

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.

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.»

Co-author, Fabio Levi (MD), Emeritus Professor at the Faculty of Biology and Medicine, University of Lausanne, (Switzerland), said: «While the downward trends in overall cancer death rates is good news, smoking still remains the greatest cause of cancer deaths in the EU.

Since 2011 there has been a fall in total cancer death rates in the EU of 8 % in men and 3 % in women.

However, the 2015 predictions confirm our projections on long - term trends made two years ago that lung cancer death rates would overtake breast cancer in women around 2015.»

In women, breast and colorectal cancer death rates will fall by 9 % and 7 % respectively, but lung cancer death rates will rise by 8 %.

This represents a fall of 7.5 % and 6 % in men and women respectively since 2009, and an overall fall of 26 % in men and 21 % in women since the peak of cancer death rates in 1988.

Ms Koechlin, Professor Philippe Autier and colleagues used statistical models to work out whether current cancer death rates were due more to the effects of age, the year of birth (which takes into account exposure to cancer - causing agents such as sunshine during early life), or to the recent introduction of new medical technologies or treatments.

In women, breast and colorectal cancer death rates will fall by 10 % and 9 % since 2009.

«Disparities in colorectal cancer death rates take a large economic toll: Preventable deaths account for $ 6.4 billion in lost productivity.»

«There could be a significant increase in prostate cancer death rates if more people are diagnosed with metastatic disease, because treatments can only slow progression, it's not curable,» Schaeffer said.

And while decreasing lung cancer death rates are encouraging, many countries have yet to implement the kinds of comprehensive tobacco control measures that have led to drops in other countries.»

The annual report to the nation on the status of cancer in the United States, published Monday, shows cancer death rates overall continue to decline.

Overall cancer death rates continue to decrease in men, women, and children for all major racial and ethnic groups.

However, cancer death rates are dropping overall, driven largely by a reduction in the number smokers in the US.

Cancer death rates in the EU are falling faster for men compared to women per a new study.

Morbidly obese women have breast cancer death rates 3 times higher than those that are very lean.

Previous estimates of cervical cancer death rates did not account for women who had their cervixes removed in hysterectomy procedures, which...

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.»

However, a big reason for the decline in ovarian cancer death rates in some parts of the world is likely the use of birth control pills and the long - term protection against ovarian cancer they provide, study leader Dr. Carlo La Vecchia, a professor in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Milan, Italy, and colleagues, suggested.

Researchers used a different way of looking at cancer death rates that measured improvements in cancer deaths by age.

The estimates, which have been reached after researchers used for the first time in Europe a new mathematical model for predicting cancer mortality, show a fall in overall cancer death rates for both men and women when compared to 2007.

During the same time period, cancer death rates among Hispanics decreased by 2.2 % per year in men and 1.2 % per year in women, compared to decreases in non-Hispanic whites of 1.5 % per year in men and 0.9 % per year in women.

The scientists note that younger adults between ages 35 and 45 years old experienced the steepest declines in cancer death rates.

Not exact matches

Now, here's a happy story: A combination of better screening, investments in drug research, and better lifestyle choices (including declines in cigarette smoking) may have helped lead to a downtick in the rate of cancer drug deaths.

One of the few bright spots has been a decrease in the death rate associated with cancer (more on that later).

The status quo for hundreds of thousands of people, meanwhile, is untenable: More than 333,000 Americans will be diagnosed this year in any of four cancer types in which the five - year survival rate remains lower than 20 %, and in all, nearly 600,000 U.S. deaths are expected from cancer in 2016.

The falling rate of cancer - related deaths is clearly an impressive achievement, and may be partially attributable to drug makers» increased focus on developing novel new therapies to fight cancers.

«The only decrease in age - adjusted death rates among the 10 leading causes of death was for cancer,» wrote the CDC.

But if the cancer treatment reduces cancer mortality by six percent, but the increase in death from suicide and drug and alcohol poisoning stays the same, then the overall death rate increases by two percent.

To wit, if a new cancer treatment reduces cancer mortality for a group by ten percent, but death from suicide and drug and alcohol abuse increases, say, by eight percent, then the overall death rate for the group goes down by two percent.

In any case, cervical cancer is very slow growing, so we wouldn't know whether mass vaccination would reduce death rates for 20 - 30 years!

Liver cancer is the most common malignancy of the digestive system with high death rate.

When infants are not optimally breastfed they are at risk for increased illness such as higher rates of gastrointestinal and respiratory infections, allergies, cancer, obesity, cardiovascular disease and diabetes and even death.

Approximately 175000 cancer cases are diagnosed annually in children younger than age 15 years worldwide, 1 with an annual increase of around 0.9 % in incidence rate in the developed world, only partly explained by improved diagnosis and reporting.1, 2 Childhood cancer is rare and its survival rate has increased significantly over the years owing to advancement in treatment technologies; however, it is still a leading cause of death among children and adolescents in developed countries, ranking second among children aged 1 to 14 years in the United States, surpassed only by accidents.1, 3 Childhood cancer is also emerging as a major cause of death in the last few years in Asia, Central and South America, Northwest Africa, and the Middle East, where death rates from preventable communicable diseases are declining.2

Breast cancer survival rates have increased, and the number of deaths associated with this disease is steadily declining, largely due to factors such as earlier detection, a new personalized approach to treatment and a better understanding of the disease.

The report claims that if all countries improved their cancer survival rates to match Icelandic standards, deaths from cancer would fall by 12 per cent, equal to 150,000 lives saved across Europe.