Sentences with phrase «death than breast»

Oral cancer is even more likely to result in death than breast, skin, or cervical cancer, with a mortality rate of about 50 % due to late detection.

Among women diagnosed with early - stage breast cancer in California, the percentage undergoing a double mastectomy increased substantially between 1998 and 2011, although this procedure was not associated with a lower risk of death than breast - conserving surgery plus radiation, according to a study in the September 3 issue of JAMA.

Lung cancer remains the No. 1 cancer killer in both men and women, and causes more deaths than breast, prostate, colon, and pancreatic cancers combined.

Not exact matches

Non-Hispanic black (NHB) women «continued to have higher breast cancer death rates than [non-Hispanic white] women, with rates 39 % higher in NHB women in 2015, although the disparity has ceased to widen since 2011.»

The essay «God as Monica's Breast» is worth the price of the volume, and the «Consenting to Die» essay, which discusses suicide and death as something to do» rather than just wait for, breaks into a fictional discussion between a doctor and a cancer patient.

If a poor mother in a developing country chooses to bottle feed rather than to breast feed her infant, she thereby chooses greater chances of sickness and death for the baby.

I feel that now, as the Lancet today publishes its series on breastfeeding stating that a lack of protection and support for breastfeeding is killing more than 800,000 babies each year, causing more than 20,000 deaths from breast cancer, and costing the global economy around $ 302bn per year in lost cognitive development and thus economic potential.

Exclusion criteria: all situations that prevented breastfeeding due to the infant's or the mother's conditions: severe neurologic problems or facial malformations that made breast sucking difficult, digestive tract malformations, hospitalisation for longer than 4 months, HIV + mother, death.

Breast feeding is clearly an issue for public health consideration as it provides significant protection against infections in newborns and infants.12 Because breast feeding has been shown to protect against infections so profoundly in developing countries, it is estimated that an increase in breast feeding worldwide by 40 % would reduce deaths from respiratory infection by 50 % in children less than 18 months ofBreast feeding is clearly an issue for public health consideration as it provides significant protection against infections in newborns and infants.12 Because breast feeding has been shown to protect against infections so profoundly in developing countries, it is estimated that an increase in breast feeding worldwide by 40 % would reduce deaths from respiratory infection by 50 % in children less than 18 months ofbreast feeding has been shown to protect against infections so profoundly in developing countries, it is estimated that an increase in breast feeding worldwide by 40 % would reduce deaths from respiratory infection by 50 % in children less than 18 months ofbreast feeding worldwide by 40 % would reduce deaths from respiratory infection by 50 % in children less than 18 months of age.3

The UK has seen greater decreases in the number of women dying from breast cancer than many other European countries over this period, though this is partly because death rates were relatively high in the 1980s.

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.

Further caution is required due to the fact that the absolute numbers of deaths in 2015 remains higher for breast than for lung.

However, the total number of deaths will remain slightly higher for breast cancer (90,800) than for lung (87,500).

The American Cancer Society's recent annual report on cancer indicates that more than 1.7 million cancer deaths have been averted between 1991 and 2012 largely due to better preventative steps such as smoking cessation and screening for breast and colon cancers.

However, in the largest study of its kind so far, scientists from the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) in Heidelberg have now shown that the risk of death from heart disease in breast cancer patients following radiotherapy or chemotherapy is no higher than it is among the average population.

In 2010, 41 percent of breast cancer deaths occurred in the more than 19 million women who are between the ages of 65 to 84 years.

Although there is substantial evidence that the virus can be transmitted by breast - feeding, the risk to infants is lower than the risks of death from other infections and malnutrition.

«Cardiovascular disease is the most common cause of death in women, almost three times more common than breast cancer,» says the study's lead author, Associate Professor Michael d'Emden of the Royal Brisbane Hospital.

Cardiovascular disease is still the most common cause of death among women, and kills more young women than breast cancer, the figures show.

Given the poor prognosis and limited treatment options in pancreatic cancer, new therapies to combat the disease are desperately needed: Earlier this year, the American Cancer Society reported that it is estimated that in 2016, nearly 42,000 people will die from the disease, surpassing the number of deaths from breast cancer by more than 1,000.

In the era of personalized cancer therapy, patients with TNBC remain at considerably higher risk of relapse and death than patients with other breast cancer subtypes, due to the aggressive nature of TNBC and the lack of newer targeted therapies for the disease.

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death, with more people dying of lung cancer than of colon, breast, and prostate cancers combined.

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.

The ACS estimates that 182,400 new cases of invasive breast cancer will be diagnosed in the United States in 2008, resulting in more than 40,000 deaths.

Lung cancer causes 1.6 million annual deaths, more than breast, colon, and prostate cancers combined.

Globally, breast cancer affects more women than any other type of cancer and is the leading cause of cancer - related deaths among women.

Morbidly obese women have breast cancer death rates 3 times higher than those that are very lean.

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