Sentences with phrase «cancers than those without»

Furthermore, even low - risk kids have a higher chance of certain cancers than those without the syndrome.

Women who carry an inherited fault in the gene BRIP1 are over three times more likely to develop ovarian cancer than those without the fault, according to a study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

Approximately 20 % of people of European descent carry two copies of the first variant, a version of a SNP on chromosome 8q24, putting them at a 50 % higher risk of developing bladder cancer than those without the variant.

Not exact matches

In the final season of Breaking Bad, Walter White, the chemistry teacher turned drug kingpin, has made more money than he can spend without breaking his cover as a mild - mannered cancer survivor.

The German universities expressed less opposition to the growth of Nazism in the 1930's than did the churches and labor unions; their failure at this point has been attributed in large part to their neutral pursuit of truth without concern for the life of the nation.14 By contrast, an example of intellectual responsibility occurred a few years ago when the University of Chicago was building a new cancer research hospital.

In another meta - study (compiling data from 47 smaller studies) published in 2002, more than 50,000 women with breast cancer and nearly 97,000 women without the disease from 30 countries were studied.

In addition to the improvements in survival and time without relapse, the drug reduced the rates of severe bone complications, a major problem in prostate cancer, by more than a half.

Similarly, Balboni wrote, the cancer patients who relied on private, unspoken religious beliefs to manage their illness were «nearly three times more likely to receive intensive life - prolonging care near death and less likely to enter hospice during the final weeks of life» than those without a pronounced religious sense.

About 52 percent (34 of 66) of patients had personality - related problems, although sometimes without a formal diagnosis and more than a majority of patients had at least one coexisting illness, including cancer, cardiac disease, diabetes, stroke and others.

The study shows that in patients older than 40 with an episode of acute pancreatitis, 1.5 percent were eventually diagnosed with pancreatic cancer compared to 0.13 percent of patients without a prior episode of acute pancreatitis.

More unexpected, researchers at the University of Wisconsin at Madison uncovered a link between sleep apnea and cancer mortality: Cancer deaths among patients with severe apnea were five times higher than among those wicancer mortality: Cancer deaths among patients with severe apnea were five times higher than among those wiCancer deaths among patients with severe apnea were five times higher than among those without.

«It is particularly good news for the large number of affected patients that if they are in good medical care and have survived breast cancer, they do not need to be more worried about deadly heart diseases than women at the same age without breast cancer.»

«Many more men have elevated PSA than actually have cancer but it can be difficult to determine this without biopsy.

Getting Treatment Right Despite the prevalence of cancer in the elderly, treatment studies rarely include people older than 70, leaving doctors without clear guidance on what works best for such patients.

However, what our trial has shown is that although this is still the case, the proportion of women who will actually have a recurrence without radiotherapy is very small (less than 5 percent), five years after treatment,» said Ian Kunkler, F.R.C.R., professor of clinical oncology at the Edinburgh Cancer Research Center in the University of Edinburgh.

Our data show that cancer cells without BRCA1 have more than one «Achilles heel,» and so there are more ways to target cancers and therefore to prevent tumours becoming resistant to treatment.»

Results reveal that on average, the 13 states allowing the use of medical marijuana had a 24.8 percent lower annual opioid overdose mortality rate after the laws were enacted than states without the laws, indicating that the alternative treatment may be safer for patients suffering from chronic pain related to cancer and other conditions.

People who carry one of those eight mutations had, on average, smaller brain regions than brains without a mutation but of comparable age; some of the genes are implicated in cancer and mental illness.

A new study, from Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) at the University of Utah, shows for the first time that childhood cancer survivors, diagnosed between 1970 and 1986, are more than five times as likely to have been enrolled on a federal social security disability assistance program as compared to individuals without a cancer hiCancer Institute (HCI) at the University of Utah, shows for the first time that childhood cancer survivors, diagnosed between 1970 and 1986, are more than five times as likely to have been enrolled on a federal social security disability assistance program as compared to individuals without a cancer hicancer survivors, diagnosed between 1970 and 1986, are more than five times as likely to have been enrolled on a federal social security disability assistance program as compared to individuals without a cancer hicancer history.

Breast cancer patients with a mutation in both copies of the NQO1 gene have a 20 % lower survival rate 5 years after treatment than do patients without the mutation, according to a new study of more than 2000 Finnish women.

«The risk of lung cancer development in never - smoking carriers is greater than the risk of heavy smokers with or without the mutation,» says Dr. Gazdar, who is an IASLC member.

An analysis that included information from more than 57,000 screening colonoscopies suggests that higher adenoma detection rates may be associated with up to 50 percent to 60 percent lower lifetime colorectal cancer incidence and death without higher overall costs, despite a higher number of colonoscopies and potential complications, according to a study in the June 16 issue of JAMA.

They found that the mutation occurred in approximately 1 % of NSCLCs and in less than one in 7,500 subjects without lung cancer.

In a new study of more than 125,000 pregnant women in Sweden, researchers found that the risk of hepatobiliary cancer and immune - mediated and cardiovascular diseases later in life is higher in women with intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy (ICP) than in women without this condition.

The racially diverse study sample consisted of two groups: 89 patients diagnosed with low risk prostate cancer (clinical stage T1 - T2a, biopsy Gleason score 6 or less, and prostate specific antigen less than 10 ng / ml), who initially underwent AS, and 420 patients without cancer who had a negative prostate needle biopsy.

When the researchers introduced these microRNAs into mice prone to B - cell lymphoma, tumors formed far faster, and the mice died from their cancers earlier than those without the molecules.

With the exception of a slight difference in bowel function, investigators found that HRQoL outcomes for patients on AS were no different than those in men without prostate cancer during the three years of followup.

Dogs with bone cancer that received a neurotoxin injection had significantly more pain relief than those that got standard care without the injection.

They then analysed the results of a further five studies and found that women with cosmetic breast implants had a 38 % greater risk of death from breast cancer than women without implants.

Women with what's called the BRCA mutation have a much higher risk of breast cancer than women without it, according to the National Cancer Instcancer than women without it, according to the National Cancer InstCancer Institute.

It would indeed be of great interest to see whether ablation of stromal p16Ink4a - expressing senescent cells, in otherwise genetically intact INK - ATTAC animals without existing tumors, would lower the animals» risk for cancer, and put any tumors they might develop on a less malevolent trajectory, than untreated mice.

Schraw and his colleagues found that the risk of developing any cancer was 2.6 times higher in children with non-chromosomal birth defects than in those without a defect.

Professor Lars Fugger, who led the study, said, «We found that people carrying the protective TYK2 genetic variant were no more likely to have serious infection or to develop cancer than people without the variant.»

Children with non-chromosomal birth defects, such as congenital heart malformations or nervous system disorders, are more than twice as likely to end up with childhood cancer as kids without a birth defect, according to a study presented today (April 15) at the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) in Chcancer as kids without a birth defect, according to a study presented today (April 15) at the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) in ChCancer Research (AACR) in Chicago.

By contrast, older women aged 45 to 64 had average treatment costs in the first year after a breast cancer diagnosis that were $ 75,737 more than their peers without breast cancer spent on healthcare in a year.

Gene Markers Located for Hereditary Prostate Cancer Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Brady Urological Institute, Wake Forest University and the Karolinska Institute in Sweden identified an array of gene markers for hereditary prostate cancer that, along with family history for the disease, appear to raise risk to more than nine times that of men without such maCancer Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Brady Urological Institute, Wake Forest University and the Karolinska Institute in Sweden identified an array of gene markers for hereditary prostate cancer that, along with family history for the disease, appear to raise risk to more than nine times that of men without such macancer that, along with family history for the disease, appear to raise risk to more than nine times that of men without such markers.

However, the suicide risk during the first week following the diagnosis was twelve times higher than in people without cancer.

The study found that when mice with Staphylococcus epidermidi (and therefore, 6 - HAP as well) were exposed to cancer - causing UV rays, they developed significantly fewer tumors than the mice without the 6 - HAP - producing bacteria.

A study carried out in Hartford Connecticut, the first of it's kind in North America, found that, «women with breast cancer have 50 % to 60 % higher levels of organochlorines (chlorination byproducts) in their breast tissue than women without breast cancer.»

I never felt so grateful for my body, for my big hips, my cellulite, my frizzy hair, my long gangly toes, and all the idiosyncrasies that make me unique, than when I watched dozens of women afflicted with cancer, most now living without one or both of their breasts, practice yoga without any sense of comparison or competition, without trepidation or worry, or when I received the warmest hugs from these women, without a shred if insecurity or inhibition.

«With regards to the warnings that comfrey can cause cancer and liver disease, most herbal practitioners point out that those results were from studies that isolated the pyrrolizidine alkaloids and fed or injected them into animal subjects in doses far higher than any typical usage of comfrey leaf, and that comfrey leaf has been regularly ingested by thousands of people around the world without reported ill effects.»

Young women whose aunts or mothers had breast cancer were more than two times as likely to have a benign breast disease diagnosis in comparison to young women without a family history.

VEGF stimulates the growth of new blood vessels, and without a new supply of blood a cancer tumor can't grow much larger than a dot the size of the period at the end of this sentence.

This summer, however, an extensive study of more than 1.6 million mammograms revealed that CAD fails to improve breast cancer detection rates when compared to mammograms that are analyzed without CAD.

In a 2008 RCT of 161 prostate cancer patients, men who took 30 grams of ground flaxseed daily for 1 month had significantly less cancer growth than the group who followed a low - fat diet without flaxseed (9).

The video discusses vitamin C from supplements, which can not only be a waste of money, but can be potentially detrimental to your health, particularly in large doses like vitamin A, see: http://nutritionfacts.org/videos/herbalife®-supplement-liver-toxicity/ There is also evidence that rather than protecting from disease, multivitamins can actually increase the risk of breast cancer: http://nutritionfacts.org/videos/multivitamin-supplements-and-breast-cancer/ Also, I wouldn't put so much emphasis on one particular «superfood», because there are many others that contribute to longevity, like cocoa (but of course without the milk and sugar that many folks tend to add for palatability), see: http://nutritionfacts.org/videos/kuna-indian-secret/ and: http://nutritionfacts.org/videos/new-antioxidant-superstars-2/.

Research on rats showed a doubling of cancer cells in mice that were fed with yogurt is more constrained than mice without the yogurt.

If there's a way to tell a story about cancer, avoiding downbeat despair and plugging in distinctly English humor without seeming flippant or anything less than honest, director Catherine Hardwicke and screenwriter Morwenna Banks (whose 2013 BBC radio play «Goodbye» was the inspiration) do it well, finding a tricky balance between dignified and accessible.

Director Jonathan Levine's 50/50 is one of those rare movies that pulls off a feat of narrative tightrope walking, in this case a comedy - drama about a young man with cancer that manages to be thought - provoking and insightful without being melodramatic, and funny and irreverent rather than woefully inappropriate or safe.

Regarding cancer treatment in animals and people, treating the effects are definitely important, but even more important than that is to identify the cause of the cancer so that even if treating the effects of the cancer seems to work, without identifying the cause, often the cancer will return.