Sentences with phrase «cancer studies because»

And among lab animals, rats are considered particularly relevant to human cancer studies because they need the same nutrients and proportion of protein for maximal growth as humans.

Not exact matches

They said that drinking «very hot» beverages was «probably carcinogenic,» because the practice was linked to esophageal cancer in some studies.

Media Mangles Report: Study Shows Capsaicin Does Not Cause Skin Cancer By Lois Manno Editor's note: the spelling of «chili» is used instead of «chile» because the scientific study used this form of the Study Shows Capsaicin Does Not Cause Skin Cancer By Lois Manno Editor's note: the spelling of «chili» is used instead of «chile» because the scientific study used this form of the study used this form of the word.

We included prospective studies that provided hazard ratios (HRs) with 95 % confidence intervals (CI) for at least three categories (including the reference group) of milk consumption in relation to mortality from all causes, overall cardiovascular disease, or overall cancer, We omitted studies that only reported results for total milk products or combined non-fermented and fermented milk because non-fermented and fermented milk may have different associations with mortality.

I'm trying to eat as much as I can because of its nutritional benefits: — they can help your diet by making you feel full (it's because they absorb 10 times their weight in water, forming a bulky gel)-- they are the richest plant source of Omega - 3 — chia seeds slow down how fast our bodies convert carbohydrates into simple sugars, studies indicate they can control blood sugar — they are an excellent source of fiber, with a whopping 10 grams in only 2 tablespoons — chia seeds are rich in antioxidants that help protect the body from free radicals, aging and cancer — chia seeds contain no gluten or grains — the outer layer of chia seeds swells when mixed with liquids to form a gel (this can used in place of eggs to lower cholesterol and increase the nutrient content of foods and baked goods)(More info here.)

I have to disagree w / some of the research you refer to (specifically the penile cancer) because it differs from what I've found — http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/312/7033/779/c -, but it's possible there are different studies out there showing different results.

Earlier studies looking at the relationship between breastfeeding and breast cancer often missed this protective effect because they did not take into account the length of time breastfeeding.

And because co-sleeping in the form of bedsharing makes breastfeeding easier for mothers, it encourages them to breastfeed for a greater number of months, according to Dr. Helen Ball's studies at the University of Durham, therein potentially reducing the mothers chances of breast cancer.

And while the science may be disputed, depending on who is funding the study, as to whether commonly used food dyes such as Yellow 5, Red 40 and 6 others made from petroleum pose a «rainbow of risks» that include hyperactivity in children, cancer (in animal studies), and allergic reactions, because of the problem of hyperactivity, the Center for Science in the Public Interest petitioned the Food and Drug Administration to ban the use of these dyes given that the British government and European Unionhave taken actions that are virtually ending their use of dyes throughout Europe.

«It's disgraceful for Sen. Reid to deny cancer patients... just because he wants to score some political points,» said Republican Study Committee Chairman Steve Scalise of Louisiana on the House floor Wednesday afternoon.

Staten Island was chosen as part of the study because it has the highest rate of cancer in the city.

Studies have previously shown there is a higher mortality rate due to cancer in people with mental illness, perhaps because of high rates of risk factors such as smoking.

California proposed the new goal because a recent federal study resolved a decade - long debate by concluding that chromium 6 can cause cancer when ingested.

Now a University of Colorado Cancer Center study published online ahead of print in the journal Oncogene offers compelling evidence explaining this failure and offering a possible strategy for the use of retinoic acid or other retinoids against some breast cancers: Because early clinical trials are often offered to patients who have already tried other more established therapies, breast cancer cells may have been pushed past an important tipping point that offers retinoic acid resisCancer Center study published online ahead of print in the journal Oncogene offers compelling evidence explaining this failure and offering a possible strategy for the use of retinoic acid or other retinoids against some breast cancers: Because early clinical trials are often offered to patients who have already tried other more established therapies, breast cancer cells may have been pushed past an important tipping point that offers retinoic acid resiscancer cells may have been pushed past an important tipping point that offers retinoic acid resistance.

While it may seem ill - advised, researchers are eager to synthesize the toxin because studies have shown that it could help fight cancer.

«The effect of depressive disorders on prostate cancer treatment and survivorship warrants further study, because both conditions are relatively common in men in the United States.»

«Ninety to 95 percent of cervical cancer cases are HPV - related, and there are very few studies of this type of cancer in mice because HPV is a human virus,» Schwarz said.

Studying such diseases is a good first step because they are cancers of immune cells themselves, and it's possible to analyze them with a mere blood sample.

«Because there is currently no reliable screening available for ovarian cancer, most cases are diagnosed at advanced stages,» said the study's author, Bo (Bonnie) Qin, PhD, a postdoctoral associate at Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jcancer, most cases are diagnosed at advanced stages,» said the study's author, Bo (Bonnie) Qin, PhD, a postdoctoral associate at Rutgers Cancer Institute of New JCancer Institute of New Jersey.

Additionally, some long - term outcomes, such as cancer, can not be studied easily because of the relatively short - term follow - up contained in many databases.

Because telomeres can vary greatly due to factors such as age, lifestyle and cancer progression, efforts to study the direct associations between cancer risk and telomere length have been difficult.

Two of those endometrial false lines had been highly prized because they supposedly were drawn from normal tissue, which can be invaluable for studying the earliest steps to malignant transformation — potentially helping prevent cancers.

We want to connect them all because, really, we'll not be able to find the root cause of cancers and the best treatments for those cancers without studying, literally, data from millions of patients,» says Dishman.

While previous studies have surveyed the genomic characteristics of tumors confined to the prostate gland, the new study is the first to focus on metastatic hormone resistant prostate cancers, which can be difficult to treat because they often develop resistance to standard treatments.

«Because 85 percent of people in the study reported extending the antenna during calls, we might have expected to find a disproportionate cluster of tumors behind the eye and the ear on the side the cell phone was used since radiation emission is highest at the antenna,» says co-author Mark Malkin, a neuro - oncologist at Memorial Sloan - Kettering Cancer Center.

«Delivery of the HPV vaccine in safety - net settings is critically important because uninsured African - American and Hispanic women have higher rates of cervical cancer,» said Dr. Jasmin Tiro, Associate Professor of Clinical Sciences at UT Southwestern, who led the study.

«Our study shows that protein production in neurons is one of the major utilizers of energy and that neurons of Leigh syndrome degenerate because they can't sustain a high enough level of energy,» says Tony Hunter, the Renato Dulbecco Chair and American Cancer Society Professor in Salk's Molecular and Cell Biology Laboratory, who led the research.

COUNTLESS research projects around the world into cancer and other major diseases are producing bogus or misleading results because investigators are studying the wrong type of cell.

For this study, Dr. Lou and his colleagues focused on triple - negative breast cancer, which is difficult to treat, because it does not exhibit receptors for estrogen, progesterone or the HER - 2 / neu gene, which are targets for many current breast cancer treatments.

While clinical trials of such immunotherapies in other cancers have shown them to be highly effective in a subgroup of patients, the new study stands out because nearly all patients benefited from the treatment.

Studies of farm laborers who worked with the compound showed rates of certain cancers double to eight times the national average, but those exposures were intermittent and not exclusive, because workers handle many types of chemicals.

«The next step is to test tandem therapy in cell studies, because it makes sense to combine an mTOR inhibitor with an agent that does kill cancer cells,» Dr. Morita said.

Lead author Moustafa Abdalla writes: «Almost all genomic studies of breast cancer have focused on well - established tumours because it is technically challenging to study the earliest mutational events occurring in human breast epithelial cells.»

Finding funding for in - depth epidemiological studies of kidney cancer can be difficult, however, because the disease is not as common as other cancers, and not as deadly as gliomas, or liver or pancreatic cancer.

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

Parker adds that the different cancers are heterogeneous enough that the protective effect of alcohol might not apply to all of them, and that case - control and cohort studies are difficult to do because of the rarity of some types of kidney cancer.

Because bazedoxifene has already undergone safety and efficacy studies as a treatment for osteoporosis, it may be a viable near - term option for patients with advanced breast cancer whose tumors have become resistant to other treatment options, Wardell reported.

The study experienced very rapid enrollment and at the preplanned independent data and safety monitoring review panel, the study was stopped early only 10 months after the study commenced because it met the primary endpoint of improving progression - free survival (time to cancer relapse).

The protein's role in cancer was an unexpected finding in Kniss's lab because only a handful of studies had described the connection before his group pursued this line of research.

The study has also grabbed attention because — as first reported by the MIT Technology Review — tech entrepreneur Sean Parker's new $ 250 million Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy will fund the trial.

«We are particularly interested in genetic variants that are not common in the population (those carried by less than 1 and 20 women) because uncommon variants are not well studied and evidence suggests they may significantly contribute to cancer risk.»

That's because the risk level is set using studies of cancer rates among people exposed to radon — not cellular studies.

Because those organoids include stroma, a scaffold of connective tissue essential for tumor growth, they may prove better for studying therapies that target the stroma, such as cancer immunotherapy.

«Our study suggests that mutated forms of Rumi could be the cause of cancers because these mutant enzymes are unable to modify Notch.

«Pancreatic cancer cells are deadly because they program nearby immune cells to permit the tumors to survive and grow,» says study author George Miller, MD, head of the Cancer Immunology Program at Perlmutter and vice chair for research in the Department of Surgery at NYU Lacancer cells are deadly because they program nearby immune cells to permit the tumors to survive and grow,» says study author George Miller, MD, head of the Cancer Immunology Program at Perlmutter and vice chair for research in the Department of Surgery at NYU LaCancer Immunology Program at Perlmutter and vice chair for research in the Department of Surgery at NYU Langone.

For instance, as early as the 1960s a number of studies have found that breast - feeding is associated with a lower risk of breast cancer, and more recent work suggests that this may be because breast milk supports the growth of beneficial microorganisms.

For the animal study, the researchers separated 52 mice with colon cancer tumors into three groups, including a control group and groups that were fed either the grape compounds or sulindac, an anti-inflammatory drug, which was chosen because a previous study showed it significantly reduced the number of tumors in humans.

Mammography proponents, such as the American College of Radiology, contend that the study is fatally flawed because outdated mammography machines didn't find as many breast cancers as more advanced machines would.

The drop in hormone use dates back to July 2002, when the Women's Health Initiative, a 15 - year study tracking the health of more than 160,000 women, abruptly ended its long - term study of estrogen - progestin hormone replacement therapy because women taking the drugs faced an elevated risk of invasive breast cancer and heart disease.

The Canadian study is especially important because newer, more effective treatments for breast cancer were available during the 25 years when study participants were followed.