Sentences with phrase «cancer death rates»

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

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

But the cervical cancer death rate has decreased by more than 50 % in the last 30 years, mainly as a result of cervical cancer screening programs.

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

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.

Argentina, Chile and Uruguay had decreases in ovarian cancer death rates between 2002 and 2012.

Disparities in colorectal cancer death rates take a large toll on the national economy, with poorer, less - educated communities bearing the greatest burden, according to data presented at the Eighth American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Conference on the Science of Cancer Health Disparities in Racial / Ethnic Minorities and the Medically Underserved, held Nov. 13 - 16.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Breast cancer death rate plunges nearly 40 %.

«While a combination of earlier detection and better treatments have yielded a steady decline in the colorectal cancer death rate over the past 20 years, more than one in three adults in the United States who fall within recommended screening guidelines are still not being tested for colorectal cancer,» said Bob Elinskas, senior community manager for the American Cancer Society's Relay for Life.

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.

«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.

They used the World Health Organization's Cancer Mortality Database covering populations on 10 six continents to calculate age - standardized lung cancer death rates during 2006 to 2010 and annual percent change in rates for available years from 1985 to 2011 and for the most recent five years for which data is available by population and age group (30 - 49 and 50 - 74 years).

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.

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.

The United Kingdom's ovarian cancer death rate went down by 22 percent.

While U.S. government estimates suggest there had been little improvement in cancer death rates throughout the 20th century, scientists noted the government reports did not tell the whole story.

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.»

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

The study by researchers in Italy, Switzerland and the USA looked at cancer death rates in the EU 28 member states as a whole and also in the six largest countries — France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain and the UK — for all cancers, and, individually, for stomach, intestines, pancreas, lung, prostate, breast, uterus (including cervix) and leukemias for men and women.

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

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.

The overall cancer death rate in the U.S. fell 13 percent from 2004 to 2013, according to the SEER Cancer Statistics Review from September 2016.

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

Ovarian cancer death rates are expected to continue to decline 15 percent in the United States, and 10 percent in the European Union and Japan by 2020.

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

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.

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.»

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.»