Sentences with phrase «cancer deaths increased»

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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.

Indeed, the animal rights movement's fury against the speciesist use of animals» a necessary element for human flourishing, particularly in medical research» has increased to the point that scientists are now under threat of death by the most radical liberationists for daring to experiment on rats or monkeys to find cures for cancer and other human afflictions.

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.

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).

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.

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

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.

Increasing breastfeeding worldwide could prevent over 800000 child deaths and 20000 deaths from breast cancer every year.

Increasing breastfeeding to near - universal levels for infants and young children could save over 800,000 children's lives a year worldwide, equivalent to 13 % of all deaths in children under two, and prevent an extra 20,000 deaths from breast cancer every year.

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.

«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.»

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.

Since 1972, the proportion of deaths among women due to lung cancer has increased from 10 % to 22 % — a figure backed up by the latest results from Statistik Austria.

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.

There are some variations between sexes and countries, however, pancreatic cancer is the only one where increased death rates are predicted for both men and women this year.

There it directly targeted multiple oncogenes at once, increasing cancer cell death and reducing cancer cell growth.

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.

In women, the predicted age standardised rate of deaths from lung cancer will increase by 9 % from 2009 to 14.24 per 100,000 of the population, while the death rates from breast cancer are predicted to be 14.22 per 100,000, which represents a fall of 10.2 % since 2009.

«The increased death rate is cause for concern, because the prognosis for this tumour is bleak, with less than five percent of pancreatic cancer patients surviving for five years after diagnosis.

Pancreatic cancer is the only cancer for which deaths are predicted to increase in men and women rather than decrease in 2014 and beyond, according to a comprehensive study published in the leading cancer journal Annals of Oncology.

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.

She said that increasing awareness of colorectal cancer in lower socioeconomic status (SES) areas could help decrease colorectal cancer deaths and the associated economic losses.

That increase came even as rates of colon and rectal tumors and deaths dropped in people 50 and older, researchers report online March 1 in CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians.

«However, unlike smoking, which substantially increases the likelihood of premature death (for example, mortality from lung cancer), obesity and associated Type 2 diabetes primarily lead to long - term disability, so that from a lifetime perspective, obesity could tax the health care system even more than smoking.»

With our colleagues from National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan, we found that an increased level of this protein is associated with aggressive forms of ovarian cancer that are more likely to be resistant to chemotherapy and lead to death.»

Lung cancer causes the most cancer - related deaths in the United States, and researchers are searching for new cellular targets to increase survival rates.

«With cancer now surpassing heart disease as the leading cause of death in California and 22 other states, we need to increase cancer screening efforts to save lives,» he said.

If we want to change the death rate, we need to increase the investment in understanding the biology of pancreatic cancer and identifying novel treatment strategies,» said co-author and pancreatic cancer surgeon Dr. Michael Choti, Chairman of Surgery, who holds the Hall and Mary Lucile Shannon Distinguished Chair in Surgery.

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.

Among women diagnosed with early - stage breast cancer in California, the percentage undergoing a double mastectomy increased substantially between 1998 and 2011, although this procedure was not associated with a lower risk of death than breast - conserving surgery plus radiation, according to a study in the September 3 issue of JAMA.

Because it is so deadly and because the number of new cases is increasing, it is predicted to be the second leading cause of cancer deaths in the western world by 2020, trailing only lung cancer, he adds.

«As these drugs are considerably cheaper than current therapies, they can improve treatment in the developing world where the number of deaths from cancer is predicted to increase significantly over the next ten years,» said Dr Federica Sotgia, another leader of the study.

Professor Cornelis van de Velde, President of ECCO, said: «With the increase in incidence of both diabetes and breast cancer, this is an important update of the meta - analyses on this subject and an interesting addition to the literature as this study excluded other causes of death.

One - third of patients diagnosed with breast cancer eventually develop metastases in distant organs, with an increased risk of death.

«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.

«This is a lifelong disease that often strikes people in their early years, leading to decades of suffering, an increased risk of colorectal cancer, and an increased risk of premature death,» said Brian Coombes, senior author of the study.

The fatty acid also increased the effectiveness of Herceptin, a drug made from antibodies that latch onto HER2 proteins and trigger the death of cancer cells.

We get heavily hyped drugs like Avastin, which shrank tumors without adding significant time to cancer patients» lives (and increased the incidence of heart failure and blood clots to boot); Avandia, which lowered blood sugar in diabetics but raised the average risk of heart attack by 43 percent; torcetrapib, which raised both good cholesterol and death rates; and Flurizan, which reduced brain plaque but failed to slow the cognitive ravages of Alzheimer's disease before trials were finally halted in 2008.

For instance, a finding published by researchers at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in 2009 said that longer lengths of sitting were directly proportional to an increased risk of death from cardiovascular disease and most causes of death other than cancer.

CT lung cancer screening is deemed an Essential Health Benefit, covered by many private health insurers, while Medicare beneficiaries have lesser access to these exams and increased risk of lung cancer death due to lack of coverage.

«Western diet may increase risk of death after prostate cancer diagnosis.»

They found that men who ate mostly a Western diet (those in the highest quartile of the Western dietary pattern) had two - and - a-half times higher risk of prostate cancer - related death — and a 67 % increased risk of death from any cause — than those in the lowest quartile.

But clinical trials of such a drug, Pfizer's Torcetrapib, were halted in 2006 when investigators discovered that it was associated with an increased risk of death from heart attack and other complications, including cancers and infections.

«It is similar to looking at, how did cigarette smoking increase the likelihood of death or the risk of cancer?»

While women in most Asian regions are far less likely to smoke than men, the study also found an increased risk of death from cancer, CVD and respiratory diseases among East Asian women.