Sentences with phrase «cancer epidemic»

My newest blogging partner: With what feels like a recent cancer epidemic in my family, I'm starting to make healthier, more natural choices for my family.

San Francisco Bay Area, CA About Blog Breast Cancer Action (BCAction) is a national grassroots education and activist organization working to address and end the breast cancer epidemic.

There is no cancer epidemic except for cancer of the lung due to smoking.

An excellent recent Sinosphere blog entry gives a close - focus view of the lung cancer epidemic in China.

News media coverage in the 1980s and early 1990s fueled fears of a national cancer epidemic caused by power lines and generated a debate that still lingers today.

He's also filmed and produced a documentary series on the canine cancer epidemic ravaging the planet called The Dog Cancer Survival Series.

Improper diet is the leading cause in this recent canine cancer epidemic where 1 in 5 dogs die of a cancer related cause.

I first became aware of the dog cancer epidemic when my dog Henry was diagnosed with a malignant form of Hemangiosarcoma (an aggressive form of dog cancer).

As you can see from the alarming obesity, diabetes and cancer epidemic in this country, that formula isn't working!

Radiation oncology broke off from the Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences and joined forces with the Department of Oncology to tackle a cancer epidemic.

1 in 9 is an advocacy organization that keeps the concerns about the breast cancer epidemic in the forefront.

Although the studies were flawed, the panel decided they were good enough to rule out a cancer epidemic.

«When the tobacco companies started to be held accountable for their contribution to the cancer epidemic and the heart disease epidemic and they had to start contributing to the solution... then things started to change,» Campbell said.

Cancer epidemics in Turkey could hold the secret to staving off a public health disaster in North Dakota.

Even if this only became a crisis within the last 50 years, you possibly wouldn't yet see cancer epidemics.

Not exact matches

It's been a busy week for health care news between some high - profile setbacks for certain major cancer drug makers, high - profile victories for others, the confirmation of a new FDA chief, health care merger drama, and a slew of public health reports about the opioid epidemic, hepatitis C, and U.S. life expectancy.

While declining sales may be bad for soft drink companies, they're good for a public health system straining under an obesity epidemic posing as much or more of a threat than cancer.

WASP — there are alternate methods and medications to regulate hormones that are probably safer for women in the long run since the pill is linked to the increasing epidemic of breast cancer.

There's been a high cost in terms of women's health, including an epidemic of infertility caused by sexually transmitted infections, and a startling rise in cervical and oral cancers among young women from the same cause.

Our indulgent, indolent and frantic life styles have triggered the new plagues of vascular disease, cancer and the now epidemic depression and senile dementia.

Artificial feeding increases the risk of not only childhood infections, but also of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular disease and cancers, which are assuming epidemic proportions.

That makes them the main culprits in the obesity epidemic which contributes to the UK's top killers: heart attacks, strokes, diabetes and cancer.

«We need to make sure our mothers, wives, daughters and grandmothers — all of them — get breast cancer screening to avoid this type of epidemic.»

Cuomo also said he wants to make it easier for women to get breast cancer screenings, and he'd like to take steps against the heroin epidemic.

Meanwhile, top priorities for lawmakers appear to include legislation around the aforementioned topics like daily fantasy sports, but also regulations of for - hire vehicle services like Uber, combating the heroin epidemic and a couple of more serious issues - the governor has also mentioned an interest in a breast cancer screening program.

In a letter to Assembly and Senate leaders, Andrew Cuomo said he'd like consensus on combatting the heroin epidemic, increasing access to breast cancer screening and treatment, ethics reform, campaign donation laws and updating the alcohol beverage control law.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) describes sleep deprivation as a «public health epidemic» linked to a wide range of medical issues, including hypertension, diabetes, depression, obesity and cancer.

KSHV was discovered in the mid-1990s at the height of the AIDS epidemic, when as many as half of people with AIDS were found to have the virus; it continues to be the most common cancer - causing virus associated with AIDS.

To stem this «epidemic,» Ahn and others discourage routine thyroid cancer screening.

The authors conclude that they've stumbled onto an epidemic of melanoma — a type of skin cancer — in iconic and commercially important fish.

«We decided that liver cancer needed to be studied particularly because of the obesity epidemic in the U.S..

Ever since, concern has risen that the vaccine may have triggered an epidemic of cancer (Science, 10 May, p. 1012).

«These results suggest that much of the burden of leukemia worldwide is due to the epidemic of vitamin D deficiency we are experiencing in winter in populations distant from the equator,» said Cedric Garland, DrPH, adjunct professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Public Health and member of Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego Health.

Diabetes is epidemic, and cancers are climbing in women.

«Tobacco smoking has now reached epidemic proportions in Asia and it is likely, with the maturation of this epidemic, and the lack of effective tobacco control efforts, smokers will continue to face an increased risk of death from cancer and other diseases.»

«Breast cancer is a virtual epidemic.

«West Africa will see much more suffering and many more deaths during childbirth and from malaria, tuberculosis, HIV — AIDS, enteric and respiratory illnesses, diabetes, cancer, cardiovascular disease, and mental health during and after the Ebola epidemic,» they write.

«This has also reached an epidemic level in other developed countries, which is coupled with the increase in obesity and liver cancer risk.»

per year and an increase in consumption of sugar - sweetened beverages has been identified as a significant contributor to an epidemic of obesity, heart disease and cancer worldwide.

And the imprudent use of antibiotics has contributed worldwide to epidemics of chronic diseases, such as obesity, diabetes and cancer.

Britain's obesity epidemic is a key factor behind increases in the number of women diagnosed with womb cancer, Cancer Research UK hascancer, Cancer Research UK hasCancer Research UK has said.

«We calculated that 3.6 percent of cases traveled, basically meaning that if you were able to focus on those mobile cases and reduce their mobility, you might have had a disproportionate effect on the epidemic,» said computational biologist Dr. Gytis Dudas, a Mahan Postdoctoral Fellow at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and the paper's lead author.

Breast cancer is an epidemic.

But now that we know that vitamin D won't cure cancer, we tend to avoid thinking about it at all, and that's a big mistake because vitamin D deficiency, which is currently at epidemic proportions in the United States, is still a major contributor to a plethora of serious health issues, including low testosterone.

But sadly not before heart disease, cancer, diabetes, obesity and a whole host of other catastrophic diseases have reached epidemic proportions!

Many of us are aware of the seriousness and widespread epidemic of Lyme disease, which is now more common than breast cancer.

It arguably bears some of the blame for the epidemic of obesity and weight - related disorders such as diabetes, cancer, and heart disease.

So it's no surprise that we're seeing an epidemic of «aging» diseases linked to inflammation, including diabetes, cardiovascular disease, autoimmune disease and cancer.

In early 1977, the committee released the Dietary Goals for Americans, blaming what they saw as an «epidemic» of killer diseases — obesity, diabetes, heart disease and cancer — on changes in the American diet that had occurred in the previous fifty years, specifically the increase in «fatty and cholesterol - rich foods.»

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