Sentences with phrase «death by cancer»

There's Willard Russell, tormented veteran of the carnage in the South Pacific, who can't save his beautiful wife, Charlotte, from an agonizing death by cancer no matter how much sacrificial blood he pours on his «prayer log.»

Eating seven or more portions reduces the specific risks of death by cancer and heart disease by 25 % and 31 % respectively.

They found that eating a diet rich in meat and cheese during middle age can double the risk of death, and quadruple the risk of death by cancer.

The good news is that from 1930 to the present day, stomach cancer has declined from the leading cause of death by cancer to one of the lesser causes.

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Some good news in the war on breast cancer: «From 1989 to 2015, breast cancer death rates decreased by 39 %, which translates to 322,600 averted breast cancer deaths in the United States,» according to a new report published by the American Cancer Socancer: «From 1989 to 2015, breast cancer death rates decreased by 39 %, which translates to 322,600 averted breast cancer deaths in the United States,» according to a new report published by the American Cancer Socancer death rates decreased by 39 %, which translates to 322,600 averted breast cancer deaths in the United States,» according to a new report published by the American Cancer Socancer deaths in the United States,» according to a new report published by the American Cancer SoCancer Society.

Johnson & Johnson's cancer treatment Zytiga significantly cut the death risk for newly - diagnosed, advanced prostate cancer patients by 38 %, according to data unveiled at the ongoing American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) annual meeting this weekend.

Good news: Deaths from cancer and heart disease — by far the two biggest killers of Americans — are on the decline, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as are those related to HIV.

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Those drugs in combination reduce patients «risk of death or their cancer progressing by 42 percent versus chemotherapy, still beating Wall Street «s estimates.

Its drug Niraparib kills cancer cells by inhibiting the production of proteins called PARPs, which help repair damaged DNA strands, thereby hastening the death of some types of cancer cells.

His fictional testimony to the power of human virtue and solidarity is rendered especially poignant by Cheever's recent death from cancer at age 69.

But to the young widow with children to raise alone, to the man dying an agonizing and untimely death from cancer, to the person full of life and hope who is incapacitated by multiple sclerosis, or to the child who has to start his or her life with an uncorrectable birth defect, the average isn't what matters.

Indeed, the animal rights movement's fury against the speciesist use of animals» a necessary element for human flourishing, particularly in medical research» has increased to the point that scientists are now under threat of death by the most radical liberationists for daring to experiment on rats or monkeys to find cures for cancer and other human afflictions.

A cure for cancer or heart disease or Alzheimer's is not a cure for death from social pathologies or a guarantee that life without illness and disease will necessarily be marked by greater happiness.

I'm going to assume this is going to be a painless death, not like, I'm dying of bone cancer which by all accounts pretty much renders a person immobile in pain.

There could be a cure for cancer or aids, or maybe there wouldnt be so much death in the world that is caused by religion.

This new serenity would indeed see him through the first life - threatening onset of cancer, which turned out to be a crisis that sent those of us around him into a watchful state of anxiety but that would by his account leave him with a newfound feeling of peace and acceptance in the presence of death.

This cartoon was inspired by Noelle Marie's reflection of Anita Moorjani's book, Dying to Be Me: My Journey from Cancer, to Near Death, to True Healing.

But consider the price at which that comfort is purchased: it requires us to believe in and love a God whose good ends will be realized not only in spite of» but entirely by way of» every cruelty, every fortuitous misery, every catastrophe, every betrayal, every sin the world has ever known; it requires us to believe in the eternal spiritual necessity of a child dying an agonizing death from diphtheria, of a young mother ravaged by cancer, of tens of thousands of Asians swallowed in an instant by the sea, of millions murdered in death camps and gulags and forced famines.

Hasker's third proposition is that for the problem of divine non-intervention to be a real problem, «we must be able to identify specific kinds of cases in which God morally ought to intervene but does not» Many critics of (traditional) theism probably already have a more or less vague list of such cases, which might include genocidal events, such as the Nazi holocaust and the Rwandan massacre; wars; large - scale natural disasters; conditions of chronic poverty, in which millions of children die from starvation or are permanently stunted because of inadequate protein; the sexual molestation of children, which often leaves them psychologically scarred for the rest of their lives; death preceded by long, painful illnesses, such as cancer or AIDS, or by mind - destroying conditions, such as Alzheimer's disease; and the kinds of events described by Dostoyevski, such as the soldier using his pistol to get a mother's baby to giggle with delight and then blowing its brains out.

But if the cancer treatment reduces cancer mortality by six percent, but the increase in death from suicide and drug and alcohol poisoning stays the same, then the overall death rate increases by two percent.

To wit, if a new cancer treatment reduces cancer mortality for a group by ten percent, but death from suicide and drug and alcohol abuse increases, say, by eight percent, then the overall death rate for the group goes down by two percent.

Researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health, found that eating red meat once a day gives you a 20 % greater chance of death by heart disease or cancer.

Mogroside V has been found in research to have the ability to inhibit tumor growth in pancreatic cancer by interfering with the rapid dividing of cancer cells, preventing angiogenesis (blood flow to the tumor), and even promoting cancer cell death (10).

This intimate chronicle of his struggle with liver disease and cancer is a series of conversations with Sweetness (as Payton was called), his friends and family, transcribed by Yaeger, an associate editor for SI, around the time of Payton's death last November at age 45.

In 2003, a yearafter becoming director of the National Cancer Institute, Dr. Andrew vonEschenbach stunned the medical community by setting the goal of «eliminating cancer as a cause of suffering and death by the year2015.&Cancer Institute, Dr. Andrew vonEschenbach stunned the medical community by setting the goal of «eliminating cancer as a cause of suffering and death by the year2015.&cancer as a cause of suffering and death by the year2015.»

That's because breast milk — custom - made nourishment specially formulated by Mother Nature — offers so many benefits: It boosts your baby's immune system, promotes brain development, and may reduce your child's risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) as well as diabetes, some types of cancer, obesity, high cholesterol, and asthma later in life.

It was estimated that deaths in hospitals by preventable adverse events exceed the amount attributable to the eight leading cause of death in American (CDC, 1999b) and even exceed the number of deaths cause by automobile accidents (43,458), breast cancer (42,297) or AIDS (16,516)(CDC, 1999a).

Last month the Texas Department of Health Services published a study that showed that the 5 leading causes of death by disease in the Dallas - Fort Worth area are: Heart Disease, Cancer, Strokes, Chronic Respiratory Disease and Diabetes.

Approximately 175000 cancer cases are diagnosed annually in children younger than age 15 years worldwide, 1 with an annual increase of around 0.9 % in incidence rate in the developed world, only partly explained by improved diagnosis and reporting.1, 2 Childhood cancer is rare and its survival rate has increased significantly over the years owing to advancement in treatment technologies; however, it is still a leading cause of death among children and adolescents in developed countries, ranking second among children aged 1 to 14 years in the United States, surpassed only by accidents.1, 3 Childhood cancer is also emerging as a major cause of death in the last few years in Asia, Central and South America, Northwest Africa, and the Middle East, where death rates from preventable communicable diseases are declining.2

Victora 2016 estimated that each year, 823,000 deaths in children under five years and 20,000 deaths from breast cancer could be prevented by near universal breastfeeding.

The report claims that if all countries improved their cancer survival rates to match Icelandic standards, deaths from cancer would fall by 12 per cent, equal to 150,000 lives saved across Europe.

According to one estimate, nearly 60 percent of deaths among firefighters in the line - of - duty are caused by cancer.

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In East Anglia, being screened on the NHS breast cancer screening programme reduces breast cancer deaths by 48 per cent.

State Senator Diane Savino, who strongly supports legalizing medical marijuana after seeing several family members die painful deaths from cancer, told Capital that Governor Andrew Cuomo's pot plan is simply «unworkable» and unlikely to be approved by the federal government.

The death of Isabella Blow by either cancer or suicide dominated conversation at the Costume Institute Gala last night.

«Apart from the fact that this APC bread can cause cancer, it has also resulted in many cases of serious stomach rumbling, which may have by now resulted in some deaths.»

Although long - debated in California, the issue of physician - assisted death gained momentum after Brittany Maynard, a 29 - year - old Californian who was terminally ill, decided to move to Oregon in 2014 to end her life rather than suffer the pain and debilitation caused by brain cancer.

In addition, an analysis of the corrected rates over the decade revealed that white women's rates of death from cervical cancer decreased by 0.8 percent per year, compared with an annual decrease of 3.6 percent in black women.

Since 1972, the proportion of deaths among women due to lung cancer has increased from 10 % to 22 % — a figure backed up by the latest results from Statistik Austria.

November 21: Everyone Loves a Quitter Help stub out the biggest cause of preventable disease and death in the U.S. by celebrating the American Cancer Society's Great American Smokeout.

But a major study by a Danish team, to be published this Saturday in The Lancet should help allay those fears: It found the risk of death among more than 5000 breast cancer survivors was no greater for those women who became pregnant.

Death rates from pancreatic cancer are predicted to rise since 2009 by 4 % in men and 5 % in women.

The study found that carfilzomib and irinotecan have a potential synergistic effect in SCLC and other Irinotecan - sensitive cancers by allowing normal DNA damage repair and enabling normal cell - cycle death.

Most of the 580,000 U.S. cancer deaths each year are caused by complications from the spread of cancer to distant tissues and organs, rather than from the primary tumor itself.

The authors conclude: «The findings from this large prospective study show that the association between body size and prostate cancer is complex and varies by disease aggressiveness; men who have greater adiposity have an elevated risk of high grade prostate cancer and prostate cancer death.»

In women, death rates from breast and colorectal cancer will fall by 8 % and 7 % respectively, but lung and pancreatic cancer rates will rise by 5 % and 4 %; in 2016 the death rates from lung cancer in Europe will be 14.4 per 100,000 women (compared to 13.51 in 2011) and 5.6 per 100,000 for pancreatic cancer (compared to 5.39 in 2011).

The exceptional cancer cells that escape the astrocytes do so by producing a protein called Serpin, which acts as a sort of antidote to the death signals fired at them by nearby astrocytes.

A new type of cancer drug developed at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, but not yet tested in clinical trials may have triggered the deaths of three patients who were undergoing an alternative cancer treatment by a nonmedical practitioner in Germany.