Sentences with phrase «deadly cancer among»

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), prostate cancer is the second most deadly cancer among men.

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Breast cancer is one of the leading cancers among women in the U.S., however when it is detected early, it is not deadly.

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Among patients with deadly cancers, more than 90 percent die because of metastatic spread of their disease.

If successful, it will be the first noninvasive screening test for gastric cancer: the second deadliest cancer worldwide and one with a particularly high prevalence among Asian populations.

Pharmaceutical giant Merck's flagship immunotherapy drug that was just approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) shows promise in the overall survival rate among patients suffering from one of the deadliest type of cancer that affects the lungs.

Among men who received treatment for the potentially deadly cancer, obese patients lived an average of 47 percent longer than those with a healthy body weight, researchers found.

(JOSE LUIS PELEAZ / GETTY IMAGES) Even though breast cancer incidence rates are slightly lower overall among African - American women than white women (the incidence is lower still among Hispanic, Asian, and Native American women), a combination of socioeconomic factors and unexplained biological differences make the disease more deadly — and in some cases, harder to treat — in the black community.

Rates of the deadly skin cancer known as melanoma have dropped among Americans aged 15 to 44, a new report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows.

Another study published in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine found increased levels of deadly cutaneous melanoma skin cancer among persons exposed to both sunshine and glyphosate during their agricultural work in Brazil and Italy.