Sentences with phrase «cancer of population growth»

«We can no longer afford merely to treat the symptoms of the cancer of population growth,» they wrote.

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Small populations of adult stem cells with somewhat limited developmental potential are responsible for the body's ability to heal injuries and replace worn out cells and tissues, and evidence is growing that rare cancer stem cells are responsible for the uncontrolled growth of some malignant tumors, including glioblastoma.

Professor Gianni Liti, a senior author on the paper from the Institute for Research on Cancer and Ageing, Nice, said: «We were able to study the evolution in time by combining genome sequences of the cell populations and tracking the growth characteristics of the yeast cells.

This population of cells suppresses the growth of cancer - fighting immune cells, thereby limiting the ability of the immune system to fight off cancer.

This is the result of increases in cancer diagnoses driven by the aging and growth of the population, as well as the fact that people are living longer with cancer because of earlier cancer detection and more effective treatments.

Petris says that understanding the roles of copper in biology may have far - reaching health implications for the general population because copper underpins many facets of biology, including the growth of cancer tumors and the formation of toxic proteins in Alzheimer's disease.

Even in the early stages of tumor growth, the microRNA remains active to keep the cancer stem cell population down.

Cancer, the uncontrolled growth and migration of a small population of cells within a given tissue, is one of the leading causes of death in the United States in older adults.

This is one way to explain the low rates of cancer among plant - based populations: the drop in animal protein intake leads to a drop in IGF - 1, which leads to a drop in cancer growth.

And predictions of doom usually prove exaggerated: eugenic deterioration, dietary fat, population growth, sperm counts, pesticides and cancer, mad cow disease, the effect of acid rain on forests.

Accordingly, the present study used latent difference score modeling with data from a large population - based sample of colorectal cancer patients to: 1) describe the trajectory of post-traumatic growth for colorectal cancer patients from soon after diagnosis to five years subsequently 2) assess the heterogeneity of a post-traumatic growth response to cancer over time and 3) describe the simultaneous and longitudinal relationships between post-traumatic growth and psychological distress after colorectal cancer.