Sentences with phrase «cancer than the controls»

Specifically, the team found that individuals with multiple sclerosis were 85 % more likely to develop cancer than the controls.

Indeed, the group that had discontinued HRT faced a 24 percent greater risk of developing any form of cancer than the control group and a 27 percent greater risk of developing breast cancer.

Not exact matches

I had a Catholic priest look me in the eye no less than 3 weeks ago and tell me that birth control give you a 30 % chance to get cervical cancer (which is a straight up lie).

I probably want to say more, but I have to go help my wife with her treatments for cancer where something smaller than her and inside is trying to control her and we are seeking to put things back in balance.

And if you're pregnant now, try to keep your weight gain under control: A 2004 study tied pregnancy weight gain of more than 33 pounds to breast cancer later in life.

It was deemed more important than education issues, creating more affordable housing, combating heroin addictions, increasing cancer screening, or deciding if mayoral control of New York City's schools should continue.

«Targeted radiosurgery better than whole - brain radiation for treating brain tumors: Study shows effectiveness of radiosurgery in controlling spread of brain cancer after surgery.»

However, during and after the treatment of breast cancer, having optimal control of heart disease risk factors is important, because older breast cancer survivors are more likely to die of heart disease than breast cancer,» Dr. Mehta said.

When injected with cancer cells, animals housed there developed tumors 80 % smaller than those in control mice, or no tumors at all.

Using genome data from more than 50,000 cancer cases and 60,000 controls through the GAME - ON (Genetic Associations and Mechanisms in Oncology) network, the team compared telomere lengths with the risk of developing breast, lung, colorectal, ovarian and prostate cancers, including subtypes.

Immunotherapy with a live bacterium combined with chemotherapy demonstrated more than 90 % disease control and 59 % response rate in patients with malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM), according to the results of a phase Ib trial presented today at the European Lung Cancer Conference (ELCC) 2016 in Geneva, Switzerland.1

«Cigarette smokers are at far greater risk than the general public for developing lung cancer, and helping smokers quit should be our top cancer prevention priority in these people,» said Jian - Min Yuan, M.D., Ph.D., associate director of the UPCI's Division of Cancer Control and Population Science and an epidemiologist with Pitt's Graduate School of Public Hcancer, and helping smokers quit should be our top cancer prevention priority in these people,» said Jian - Min Yuan, M.D., Ph.D., associate director of the UPCI's Division of Cancer Control and Population Science and an epidemiologist with Pitt's Graduate School of Public Hcancer prevention priority in these people,» said Jian - Min Yuan, M.D., Ph.D., associate director of the UPCI's Division of Cancer Control and Population Science and an epidemiologist with Pitt's Graduate School of Public HCancer Control and Population Science and an epidemiologist with Pitt's Graduate School of Public Health.

Duration of use among cancer patients was 2.8 years, only a little over a month longer than for the controls.

In a mouse model of triple - negative breast cancer, mice injected with cancer cells that over-express ZMYND11 had tumor volumes of less than 50 cubic millimeters while control mice and those injected with cells expressing ZMYND11 deficient for binding to the methyl group had tumor volumes ranging from 150 to 400 cubic millimeters at eight weeks.

«HPV vaccines could dramatically reduce the incidence of HPV - associated cancers, but uptake of these vaccines is far lower than for other routine childhood and teen immunizations,» said Kevin A. Henry, PhD, an assistant professor in the Department of Geography and Urban Studies at Temple University in Philadelphia and member of Fox Chase Cancer Center's Cancer Prevention and Control program.

The factors that may differ between the groups, such as older age, obesity, smoking and diabetes, are known and can be controlled for, providing for comparison groups that may provide more information on the impact of heart failure on subsequent cancer occurrence than other heart disease groups.

In all three studies, the monkeys on low - calorie diets fared better than controls, exhibiting everything from lower blood lipids to less arthritis to fewer cancer cases.

Rather than surrendering to despair and impersonal medical treatments, growing numbers of cancer patients are empowering themselves with information and control over their therapies.

Mice that were exposed to the two compounds had larger and denser breast cancer tumors than the control group.

Tumors are home to diverse immune cell types, some of which remain much less explored than T cells and could also control cancer progression» says Mikael Pittet, PhD, director of the Cancer Immunology Program in the MGH Center for Systems Biology and senior author of the Science cancer progression» says Mikael Pittet, PhD, director of the Cancer Immunology Program in the MGH Center for Systems Biology and senior author of the Science Cancer Immunology Program in the MGH Center for Systems Biology and senior author of the Science paper.

Their risk of developing breast cancer was especially high, with more than a 2-fold increased risk over controls.

Most of these men, who all had terminal prostate cancer with limited treatment options, had disease control lasting much longer than expected in this group of patients.

We therefore believe that a targeted inhibition of this specific signalling pathway, which controls how the cells in the vessel walls are connected, might work better as a cancer therapy than the more general VEGFA inhibition that is used today,» says Lena Claesson - Welsh.

The number diagnosed with prostate cancer was higher in the intervention group (n = 8054; 4.3 %) than in the control group (n = 7853; 3.6 %)(RR, 1.19 [95 % CI, 1.14 to 1.25]; P <.001).

More prostate cancer tumors with a Gleason grade of 6 or lower were identified in the intervention group (n = 3263/189 386 [1.7 %]-RRB- than in the control group (n = 2440/219 439 [1.1 %]-RRB-(difference per 1000 men, 6.11 [95 % CI, 5.38 to 6.84]; P <.001).

The fifth - leading cause of cancer death in the United States and the most deadly of gynecological cancers, it killed more than 14,000 American women in 2014, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Experts from the National Cancer Institute (NCI), the American Cancer Society (ACS), the CDC and more than 35 of the nation's NCI - designated cancer centers met at MD Anderson over two days in November 2015 as they evaluated the current state of HPV vaccinations, identified barriers to prevention - based approaches, and located opportunities for cancer centers to collectively engage in cancer control activities related to HPV vaccinCancer Institute (NCI), the American Cancer Society (ACS), the CDC and more than 35 of the nation's NCI - designated cancer centers met at MD Anderson over two days in November 2015 as they evaluated the current state of HPV vaccinations, identified barriers to prevention - based approaches, and located opportunities for cancer centers to collectively engage in cancer control activities related to HPV vaccinCancer Society (ACS), the CDC and more than 35 of the nation's NCI - designated cancer centers met at MD Anderson over two days in November 2015 as they evaluated the current state of HPV vaccinations, identified barriers to prevention - based approaches, and located opportunities for cancer centers to collectively engage in cancer control activities related to HPV vaccincancer centers met at MD Anderson over two days in November 2015 as they evaluated the current state of HPV vaccinations, identified barriers to prevention - based approaches, and located opportunities for cancer centers to collectively engage in cancer control activities related to HPV vaccincancer centers to collectively engage in cancer control activities related to HPV vaccincancer control activities related to HPV vaccination.

Radiation therapy that is used to control rather than to cure a cancer tends to have less severe side effects.

Corey has more than 20 years of experience in designing, growing and sustaining internationally - recognized programs in infection - related cancers, HIV, infection control and global oncology.

The total number of cell equivalents tested for detection of FMc was higher in the controls than in the breast cancer cases (mean 8.2 × 104 (95 % CI 7.2 — 9.2 × 104) in controls versus 5.6 × 104 (95 % CI 4.9 — 6.3 × 104) in cases).

FMc concentrations were significantly higher in the controls than in the women with history of breast cancer (p = 0.01) in a model of the ranked values adjusted for age, number of children, birth of a son, history of miscarriage, oral contraceptive use, and total number of genomes tested.

Women with breast cancer were also more likely to have used oral contraception (p = 0.04) than control women.

And we confirmed that the growth of the tumors formed by the human BCSCs transfected with the anti-miR-142-expressing lentivirus was significantly slower than those of the control tumors formed by the control lentivirus transfected BCSCs (Major points raised by the editors and the reviewers # 3) These data suggest that the regulation of APC and the Wnt signaling is at least one of the important pathways targeted by miR - 142 in human breast cancer cells and BCSCs.

Interestingly, the LARP7 - overexpressing cells formed significantly fewer colonies than those harboring the control vector (Figure 7D), suggest that re-expression of LARP7 impairs survival of these metastatic breast cancer cells.

Numerous small studies show a reduction in depression and fatigue in cancer patients who received Reiki, and a rigorously controlled study in the Journal of Orthopaedic Research showed that cells in test tubes treated by Reiki practitioners grew better than those in an untreated control group.

Women who used hormonal birth control for less than a year had a 9 % higher risk of breast cancer, while those on it for 10 years or more had a 38 % higher risk, researchers found.

Jeers: The war on cancer needs financial aid More than one in six Americans with cancer do nt get the treatment they need due to unmanageable health - care costs, according to a report by the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention.

More than 20 well - controlled studies have demonstrated the clear risk of pre-menopausal breast cancer with the use of oral contraceptives.

After a period of 7.5 - 8 years, the low - fat group weighed only 0.4 kg (1 lb) less than the control group and there was no difference in the rate of heart disease or cancer between groups (3, 4, 5, 6).

This figure is 1 1/2 times higher than the number of women diagnosed with breast cancer each year in the USA (approximately 200,000), (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2013a) and 6 times higher than the number diagnosed with HIV / AIDS each year in the USA (50,000)(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2013c).

Testosterone levels were also lower in patients with cancer than in the control group.

An Arabian study found that ginger extracts suppressed the growth of breast cancer cells, while an animal study at University of Minnesota showed that mice with colorectal cancer that received gingerols had 75 percent fewer tumors than the control group.

In this new case - control study of more than 3,000 adult women, the risk of developing breast cancer was 24 percent lower among women with the highest intake of choline compared to women with the lowest intake.

In any case, no study has ever offered direct proof that soy can prevent heart disease and in most of the major studies in which cholesterol levels were lowered through either diet or drugs, a greater number of deaths occurred in the treatment groups than in controls, deaths from stroke, cancer, intestinal disorders, accidents and suicide.

The mice developed far fewer tumors than a control group, and when exposed to additional carcinogens demonstrated a significantly lower risk of developing cancers of the stomach, colon and liver.

He might have added that studies in which cholesterol levels were lowered through either diet or drugs have consistently resulted in a greater number of deaths in the treatment groups than in controls - deaths from stroke, cancer, intestinal disorders, accident and suicide.

Most human trials are not carried out long enough to detect any increase in cancer rates, but in one trial, breast cancer rates of those taking a statin were 1500 percent higher than those of controls.

All of this along with others is intentional to get cancer under control, reduce inflammation, increase GSH levels through gluthathione (which is one of the greatest impact to automimmune, low levels) In less than 2 months: no pain in joints yet I have bone cancer secondary to metastatic breast cancer, all swelling out of the body, my lymphatic, adrenal, stomach, colon, liver all greatly impacted by chemo (the red devil) 4 years ago.

The authors» «research methods» were virtually non-existent and they didn't control for any factors other than hours spent wearing a bra — an obvious one being obesity, which is a well - known risk factor for breast cancer.

Today more than 100 randomized controlled trials of metformin and cancer are currently registered at ClinicalTrials.gov.