Sentences with phrase «cancer during its lifetime»

The most hopeful studies suggest that just half the carriers will get breast cancer during their lifetimes, the least hopeful that 90 percent will.

About one in seven men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer during his lifetime.

An estimated 12 percent of women will develop breast cancer during their lifetimes, according to the National Cancer Institute.

In Australia, approximately one in eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer during their lifetime.

The average woman in the United States has about a 1 in 8, or 12 % chance of developing breast cancer during her lifetime.

According to The American Cancer Society, one out of every seven men will get prostate cancer during his lifetime.

After all, the latest statistics tell us that 1 in 2 Americans will develop cancer during their lifetime.

It is estimated that one third to one half of the human population in the United States will contract cancer during their lifetimes.

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This is the diagnosis of cancers that never would have become clinically evident during a woman's lifetime, either because the cancer never grew or because the patient died first of another cause.

I wanted to find out about cancer — not just as a word in the «Background» section of grant proposals, but as a disease which could affect as many as one in three of us during our lifetimes — and how scientific research is being applied in the clinic.

A major risk factor for breast cancer is thought to be the amount of oestrogen a woman is exposed to during her lifetime, and hence the number of menstrual cycles she experiences.

About 12 percent of women in the United States will battle invasive breast cancer at one point during their lifetime.

«The lifetime risk of these cancers is fairly low - about one in 20 men and women will be diagnosed with lymphoma, leukemia, or myeloma at some point during their lifetime — so people born to older fathers should not be alarmed,» said Dr. Teras.

I am interested in applying fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM) to study the metabolic activity during immune response to pancreatic cancer in a zebrafish model.

Breast cancer is a common disease that one out of eight women in this country will be told they have during their lifetime.

The Etzioni study shows that among U.S. men between ages 60 to 84 with prostate cancers detected by the PSA screening, about 29 percent of whites and 44 percent of blacks would not have been otherwise diagnosed by clinical exam or developed symptoms during their lifetimes.

Prostate cancer is the second most common cancer in American men with about 1 in 7 men being diagnosed during in his lifetime.

Melanocytes also can acquire DNA mutations during an individual's lifetime that give rise to melanoma, a highly lethal skin cancer with increasing incidence.

It is now apparent from DNA - based massively parallel sequencing data that at the genomic level, every breast cancer is unique and shaped by the mutational processes to which it was exposed during its lifetime.

«Thus, our findings raise the possibility that the frequent use of antibiotics during a patient's lifetime or to treat infections related to cancer and its side effects may affect the success of anti-cancer therapy.»

These can be inherited (which is why lung cancer sometimes runs in families) or acquired during your lifetime.

Women are at risk for developing breast cancer if we are exposed to too much estrogen during our lifetime.

As the second leading cause of death, cancer will affect 1 in 3 women and half of all men during their lifetime.

Theo Westenberger died in 2008 of lung cancer leaving behind a legacy fund of great significance; she decided the funds that would have supported her own artistic practice should support the causes that she trumpeted during her lifetime: exposure for women artists, animals and the underserved.

More than one in ten women in the USA will be diagnosed with breast cancer at some point during their lifetime.