Sentences with phrase «death from cancer prevented»

From the final idea of award - winning author Siobhan Dowd — whose premature death from cancer prevented her from writing it herself — Patrick Ness has spun a haunting and darkly funny novel of mischief, loss, and monsters both real and imagined.

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Does the risk of false positive results outweigh the benefit of preventing a small number of deaths from breast cancer?

Of note, our point estimate for premature death exceeds the annual number of U.S. deaths from cervical cancer (3,909), asthma (3,361), or influenza (3,055).45 If a randomized control trial were to demonstrate similar effects to those reported in the observational literature, the «number needed to treat» with optimal breastfeeding to prevent a case of maternal hypertension would be 35, to prevent a maternal MI would be 135, and to prevent a case of breast cancer would be 385.

Increasing breastfeeding worldwide could prevent over 800000 child deaths and 20000 deaths from breast cancer every year.

Increasing breastfeeding to near - universal levels for infants and young children could save over 800,000 children's lives a year worldwide, equivalent to 13 % of all deaths in children under two, and prevent an extra 20,000 deaths from breast cancer every year.

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.

To guide the spending of that money, the National Institute of Medicine made a priority list of situations for which data about outcomes are badly needed — for instance, comparing the effectiveness of various medical and behavioral interventions to prevent the elderly from falling (the complications of which are a leading cause of death), comparing assorted drugs and surgeries alone or in combination in the treatment of specific cancers, comparing the effectiveness of different implants and devices for treating hearing loss, and so forth.

«People are dying from liver cancer, from cirrhosis,» he says, «and these deaths can be prevented.»

«We also know that this RhoB pathway, once turned on, can stimulate the expression of two proteins: p21, which prevents cells from replicating, and BIM, which induces cell death — both of which can help stop cancer growth.»

This review investigated the effect of screening women in the United Kingdom for 20 years, from age 50 - 69, on breast cancer mortality from age 55 - 79, and estimated that 180 women needed to be screened to prevent one breast cancer death.

Specifically, the Nordic Cochrane review estimate for the number of women who must be screened to prevent one breast cancer death dropped from 2,000 to 257.

«However, we hope these findings reassure clinicians and the public that that there is little question about the effectiveness of mammography screening, which should continue to play a very important role in our efforts to prevent deaths from breast cancer.»

Hoping to prevent this deep - fried bombshell from going straight to the love handles of public opinion, physicians told Reuters that extra pounds can lead to obesity, which the study linked to increased death from diabetes, kidney or heart disease as well as some cancers.

In cancer cells, IL - 13 binds to the receptor IL13Rα2 and, through a series of steps, prevents cancer cells from undergoing normal cell death.

The international team of researchers modeled the lifetime risk of women developing radiation - induced breast cancer from digital screening mammography and dying from the disease compared to the number of breast cancer deaths prevented by early detection.

Ernest Hawk, vice president and head of the division of cancer prevention and population science at MD Anderson Cancer Center, said that stepped - up prevention efforts could deliver further gains because «we already know how to prevent the bulk of tobacco - and HPV - related cancers, as well as how to reduce deaths from other cancercancer prevention and population science at MD Anderson Cancer Center, said that stepped - up prevention efforts could deliver further gains because «we already know how to prevent the bulk of tobacco - and HPV - related cancers, as well as how to reduce deaths from other cancerCancer Center, said that stepped - up prevention efforts could deliver further gains because «we already know how to prevent the bulk of tobacco - and HPV - related cancers, as well as how to reduce deaths from other cancers. . .

From life table modelling, the estimated number of deaths prevented is larger than would be expected from reduction of cardiorespiratory deaths after smoking cessation, so most of the mortality gain is likely to be due to reduced cancer progressFrom life table modelling, the estimated number of deaths prevented is larger than would be expected from reduction of cardiorespiratory deaths after smoking cessation, so most of the mortality gain is likely to be due to reduced cancer progressfrom reduction of cardiorespiratory deaths after smoking cessation, so most of the mortality gain is likely to be due to reduced cancer progression.

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TUESDAY, Dec. 6, 2016 (HealthDay News)-- Restricting people younger than 18 from indoor tanning could prevent thousands of skin cancers and deaths in the United States, according to a new study.

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.

Even the research from India that jump - started Campbell's interest in the diet - cancer link showed that rats on a low - casein diet were dying with disturbing frequency, while the high - protein rats — tumored as they may have been — were at least staying alive.13 (It's surprising, then, that The China Study promotes a plant - based diet to prevent cancer, when death is equally effective and requires fewer shopping trips.)

for good reason, I think, because if eventually every service or product came with a contract which prevented consumers from filing a lawsuit or class action if, say, for instance, the product or service caused injury or death, like a car with braking system flaws, or a child's toy that causes cancer, etc, then we'd live in a world where corporations could shove whatever they wanted down our throats, cause injuries and death, and we could do nothing about it, because we «agreed to a contract» by using their product or service in the first place (and in this scenario there would be no alternatives, so you either risk using products that could kill you, or you go live in a cave or something).