Sentences with phrase «cancer death risk»

They looked at a group of 6,381 NHANES respondents and found, «Respondents aged 50 — 65 reporting high protein intake had a 75 % increase in overall mortality and a 4-fold increase in cancer death risk during the following 18 years.

Respondents aged 50 - 65 reporting high protein intake had a 75 % increase in overall mortality and a 4-fold increase in cancer death risk during the following 18 years.

Screening colonoscopy reduces colorectal cancer death risk through detection and treatment of early cancerous or precancerous lesions (adenomas) but its effectiveness depends on examination quality, which is measured by adenoma detection rates (ADRs).

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Specifically, they had a «reduced risk of death from heart disease, stroke, diabetes, neurological diseases and suicide, although not from cancer.»

Johnson & Johnson's cancer treatment Zytiga significantly cut the death risk for newly - diagnosed, advanced prostate cancer patients by 38 %, according to data unveiled at the ongoing American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) annual meeting this weekend.

Smoking is one of the single biggest risk factors for lung cancer, which makes up more than 13 % of all new cancer diagnoses and more than one in four cancer deaths in the U.S.

Not only does driving a truck with outdated equipment put the driver and surrounding motorists at risk, the truck's emissions cause a range of serious illnesses, lung cancer, and even death.

Specifically, the task force says the «harms and costs of false - positive results, over diagnosis and overtreatment» outweigh any «significant reductions in the relative risk of death from breast cancer.»

Does the risk of false positive results outweigh the benefit of preventing a small number of deaths from breast cancer?

Those drugs in combination reduce patients «risk of death or their cancer progressing by 42 percent versus chemotherapy, still beating Wall Street «s estimates.

Eating red meat is associated with a dramatically increased risk of death from cancer and heart disease, and the more you eat, the greater the risk.

Constant ovulation is not normal nor healthy for their bodies and increases their risk for ovarian cancer, uterine prolapse and other reproductive diseases causing early death (which is why they are sent to slaughter for cheap meat in the egg industry).

A diet high in wholegrains and cereal fibre can reduce the risk of premature death from chronic diseases including cancer, cardiovascular disease and diabetes.

In case you missed it, a recent landmark study published in the peer reviewed International Journal of Epidemiology found that risk for coronary heart disease, stroke, total cardiovascular disease and death other than from cancer was reduced with each 200g a day increase in fruit and vegetables up to 800g a day, and 600g a day for cancer.

After controlling for age, sex, education, exercise, smoking, blood pressure, cholesterol levels, diabetes and cancer, a two - point increase in the Mediterranean diet score was linked with a 21 per cent reduced risk of death.

It reduces the pH level, potently reduces inflammation and leads to several beneficial changes that should lower the risk of colorectal cancer, which is the 4th most common cause of cancer death worldwide (17, 18).

They found that eating a diet rich in meat and cheese during middle age can double the risk of death, and quadruple the risk of death by cancer.

In case you haven't heard, artificial baby milk increases the risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, obesity and certain kinds of cancer.

That's because breast milk — custom - made nourishment specially formulated by Mother Nature — offers so many benefits: It boosts your baby's immune system, promotes brain development, and may reduce your child's risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) as well as diabetes, some types of cancer, obesity, high cholesterol, and asthma later in life.

Breastfed babies also have a lower incidence of SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome), and breastfeeding mothers have a lower risk of developing type 2 Diabetes and breast, ovarian, and uterine cancers.

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.

• Breastmilk protects babies from illness and can also reduce the risk of Type 1 diabetes, childhood leukemia and other serious illnesses, as well as lowering the risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS); • Breastfeeding is healthy for moms, including lowering their risk of Type 2 diabetes, breast cancer, ovarian cancer and postpartum depression; • Breastfeeding saves families money on the cost of formula and illness; and • Breastfeeding saves insurers and employers (including the military) money on the expenses of medical care and lost workplace productivity (both due to infant illness).

Furthermore, «[e] vidence links breast - feeding to lower risk for breast and ovarian cancers; it also reduces children's risk for sudden infant death syndrome, asthma, gastrointestinal infections, respiratory diseases, leukemia, ear infections, obesity, and Type 2 diabetes.»

Breastfeeding can lower the risk of gastrointestinal and diarrheal infections, ear infections, respiratory infections, allergies, cancer, diabetes, childhood obesity, heart disease, eczema, necrotising enterocolitis (NEC), and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS).

They are also at greater risk for rare but serious conditions such as severe lower respiratory infections, leukemia, necrotizing enterocolitis, and sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).5 Breastfeeding is also good for moms, lowering the risk for breast cancer, ovarian cancer, type 2 diabetes, and cardiovascular disease.6, 7

Childhood cancer is one of the leading causes of death among children, and while the evidence is still limited, studies are showing that breastfeeding for at least six months can reduce a child's risk.

Enabling women to breastfeed is also a public health priority because, on a population level, interruption of lactation is associated with adverse health outcomes for the woman and her child, including higher maternal risks of breast cancer, ovarian cancer, diabetes, hypertension, and heart disease, and greater infant risks of infectious disease, sudden infant death syndrome, and metabolic disease (2, 4).

Breastfed infants also face a low risk of sudden infant death syndrome, insulin dependent diabetes and cancer during childhood.

Part of my mission is to share information about ovarian cancer with women in order to help them understand the risk factors, symptoms and precautions to promote early detection and reduce ovarian cancer related deaths.

Breastfeeding and human milk lower the risk of the disease that plagues nearly 300,000 women in the U.S. every year and is responsible for approximately 40,000 cancer - related deaths.

Every exposure to radiation poses health risks, including programmed cell death, genetic mutations, cancers, leukemia, birth defects, and reproductive, immune and endocrine system disorders.

Patients should be reassured that Tamoxifen remains very effective in reducing the overall risk of recurrences and deaths from breast cancer, as the authors state.

A colonoscopy at age 50 can significantly lower the risk of advanced colorectal cancer and death,» said Erie County Health Commissioner Dr. Gale Burstein.

«Infertility linked to higher risk of death among women: Penn study shows link between fertility and overall mortality; infertility also linked to increased risk of death from breast cancer and diabetes.»

Still, previous studies have associated abdomen fat to higher risks of cancer, cardiovascular events and death.

When examining reproductive cancers, the authors noted that while patients with infertility were 44 percent more likely to die of breast cancer, infertility was not associated with an increased risk of ovarian cancer or death from ovarian or endometrial cancers.

The study, which examined the association between infertility and mortality as well as specific causes of death, also showed that women with a history of infertility have a 20 percent increased risk of cancer - related mortality.

A National Cancer Institute long - termstudy, involving25, 619 industrial workers in 10 factories that produced or used formaldehyde, found an increased risk of death due to leukemia, particularly myeloid leukemia, and higher rates of nasal - pharynx cancer.Further examination of the same workers, with ten more years of data, continued to show a possible link to leukemia, as well as lymphoma and multiple myeloma, amongthosewiththe highest exposures.

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force has expressed several concerns regarding population - wide screening for skin cancer, including uncertainty whether screening would reduce deaths, having patients undergo unnecessary tissue biopsies and the cost associated with screening individuals who have a low - risk for developing skin cancer.

In the journal article, the authors disagreed with the task force's findings and the physicians who authored the article stated that routine body screening of «high risk» individuals could help reduce skin cancer deaths.

«This study's results can have practice changing implications on how future prostate cancer trials are designed in terms of identifying the men for these studies who are at high risk for early death due to ineffective initial treatment for their prostate cancer,» stated Anthony Victor D'Amico, MD, PhD, chief, Genitourinary Radiation Oncology, Brigham and Women's Hospital and senior author of the study.

Using data from a randomized trial of 206 men treated with either radiation or, radiation and six months of hormonal therapy, researchers compared early markers of prostate cancer death to identify men at risk of dying early.

But a major study by a Danish team, to be published this Saturday in The Lancet should help allay those fears: It found the risk of death among more than 5000 breast cancer survivors was no greater for those women who became pregnant.

The authors conclude: «The findings from this large prospective study show that the association between body size and prostate cancer is complex and varies by disease aggressiveness; men who have greater adiposity have an elevated risk of high grade prostate cancer and prostate cancer death.»

Over a median follow - up of nearly eight years, patients who were current smokers had a 40 % increased risk of cancer relapse, as well as more than 2 - times increased risks of cancer spread and cancer - related death, compared with patients who were never smokers.

The first national study on Hispanic health risks and leading causes of death in the United States by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) showed that similar to non-Hispanic whites (whites), the two leading causes of death in Hispanics are heart disease and cancer.

Eating too many calories contributes to people becoming overweight and increases the risks of heart disease, diabetes and many cancers, which are among the leading causes of poor health and premature death.

However, in the largest study of its kind so far, scientists from the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) in Heidelberg have now shown that the risk of death from heart disease in breast cancer patients following radiotherapy or chemotherapy is no higher than it is among the average populCancer Research Center (DKFZ) in Heidelberg have now shown that the risk of death from heart disease in breast cancer patients following radiotherapy or chemotherapy is no higher than it is among the average populcancer patients following radiotherapy or chemotherapy is no higher than it is among the average population.

So a team of researchers based in China and the United States decided to examine the association between fruit and vegetable intake and risk of all - cause, cardiovascular, and cancer deaths.

Diabetes is linked to an increased risk of developing cancer, and now researchers have performed a unique meta - analysis that excludes all other causes of death and found that diabetic patients not only have an increased risk of developing breast and colon cancer but an even higher risk of dying from them.