Sentences with phrase «developing cancer during»

After all, the latest statistics tell us that 1 in 2 Americans will develop cancer during their lifetime.

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People are developing lung cancer today because they were exposed to asbestos particles in and around shipyards during World War II.26 Technology creates environmental dangers, and knowing about these dangers confronts us with problems; we must make choices that did not exist before.

Two other reports in the same issue of Cancer Causes and Control suggest that children born to mothers who eat at least one hot dog per week during pregnancy have double the normal risk of developing brain tumors, as do children whose fathers ate hot dogs before conception.

With statistics showing that one in five children will grow up to develop skin cancer and that protecting skin from the sun during childhood and adolescence is important to reducing the risk of cancer later in life, it's vital that parents become educated about sun safety, take steps to protect their kids against the damaging effects of the sun and build safe sun habits into the family routine.

Experts say that the chronic diseases that affect millions of American adults each year - heart disease, cancer, diabetes, osteoporiasis - get their start before and during the elementary school years when children are developing their dietary habits.

The state Senate unanimously passed an amended version of legislation that would provide for insurance coverage for cancers developed by volunteer firefighters during the course of their duties.

During my research in Rochester, I developed relationships with oncologists in Africa, primarily by participating actively in the inaugural Euro - African Cancer Congress in March 2001, where I gave lectures and participated in panel discussions.

By building on the skills they brought to the program and acquiring new ones during M.P.H. training and mentored research, fellows have the opportunity and the freedom to develop and pursue their own original ideas in the field of cancer prevention and control.

This fashion faded in the 1960s as effective treatments, such as vaccines and antibiotics, became available and people became aware that sun exposure and sunburn during childhood were strong risk factors for developing skin cancer in later life.»

None of the participants had high blood pressure, diabetes, heart disease, or cancer when they enrolled, but 37,123 people developed high blood pressure during an average follow - up of 12 - 16 years.

Scientists from the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, US, have revealed a communication system between the knee joint and developing bones in mice, which controls bone growth during early development and after injury.

For instance, children of women who were starving during pregnancy in the second world war grew up with an increased risk of developing cancer and diabetes.

More interesting to Mikovits, however, was Peterson's report that 5 percent of this group had developed rare immune system cancers during their illness.

During the next three decades, he conducted a series of lab experiments at Cornell and Virginia Tech and found that rats given a brief initial exposure to aflatoxin tended to develop liver cancer when fed casein, the main protein in milk.

«Cancer patients who are obese and diabetic are an already more vulnerable group of individuals when it comes to surgery, as they have an increased risk of developing complications both during and after surgery.

Dartmouth's Optics in Medicine Lab, and the entire biomedical optics community, has focused on developing a system to use intraoperatively to determine whether the margins of resected breast specimens are free of cancer during surgery.

The no - threshold theory predicts that if everyone returns and absorbs that dose during their first year back, 80 extra people (1 in 1,000) will eventually develop cancer.

Of the 3,460 participants in the study, 182 developed invasive breast cancer during follow - up; 146 of these cases were ER - positive.

People who gained more than three stone (20 kg) during adulthood were also twice as likely to develop esophageal cancer compared to people who had little weight change.

For example, rats exposed to certain fungicides during pregnancy give birth to male progeny with lower sperm counts and an increased chance of developing diabetes and cancer.

In some cases such as ovarian cancer, however, drug - free intervals are needed to allow patient recovery from side effects, during which tumors can sometimes begin to grow again or develop resistance to the drugs being used.

Researchers at The Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center have developed a test for urine, gathered during a routine procedure, to detect DNA mutations identified with urothelial cancers.

«Our study on the TACC3 - chTOG interaction will allow cellular biologists and researchers on microtubule dynamics to better understand how microtubule assembly is regulated during cellular division,» says Montoya, and he anticipates that «it could also help in developing new anti-microtubule drugs, providing more effective therapeutic options in cancer treatment.»

Most lung cancer patients undergo 4D CT as standard - of - care to help radiation oncologists develop a personalized plan to account for breathing motion during therapy.

About 7 out of every 100 cancer patients developed heart failure during the median follow - up of 8.5 years.

The situation is even clearer for children, who are at greater risk than adults from a given dose of radiation (Figure 4), both because they are inherently more radiosensitive and because they have more remaining years of life during which a radiation - induced cancer could develop.

Nguyen is developing ways to guide surgeons during tumor removal surgery by using fluorescent compounds to make tumor cells — and just tumor cells — glow during surgery, which helps surgeons perform successful operations and get more of the cancer out of the body.

An estimated 12 percent of women will develop breast cancer during their lifetimes, according to the National Cancer Instcancer during their lifetimes, according to the National Cancer InstCancer Institute.

The coolest project was the evaluation of Ruthenium NAC - CORM molecules as agents for the cancer treatment, developed at the University of Cambridge during my PhD.

During her undergraduate studies, Stacey worked in the laboratory of Dr. Anirban Sen Gupta to develop a polymeric micelle formulation of a photosensitizer for photodynamic therapy of cancer.

She has developed a model that will allow her to track the expression of TLRs within cells and determine whether TLR expression is modulated during inflammation, injury, and colorectal cancer.

After adjusting for common factors that influence breast cancer risk, Henderson and colleagues found that women whose mammograms were classified as false - positive who were referred for additional imaging had a 39 percent increased chance of developing subsequent breast cancer during the 10 - year follow - up period, compared with women with a true - negative result.

The Etzioni study shows that among U.S. men between ages 60 to 84 with prostate cancers detected by the PSA screening, about 29 percent of whites and 44 percent of blacks would not have been otherwise diagnosed by clinical exam or developed symptoms during their lifetimes.

The average woman in the United States has about a 1 in 8, or 12 % chance of developing breast cancer during her lifetime.

A 2014 Harvard University study found that obese teenagers with high levels of inflammation had a 63 % increased risk of developing colorectal cancer during adulthood compared to their thinner peers.

But also I can't remember which algae she referred to in cancer prevention but when she said it prevents the body from creating blood flow to the cancer, it immediately made me wonder whether it would do the same thing with a developing fetus during pregnancy?

Lymphedema can develop in the breast, arm, hand and torso on the side from which lymph nodes were removed during breast cancer surgery.

As a result, many men with low testosterone during or after testicular cancer treatment had developed health problems identified as symptoms of low testosterone, including these:

During the followup period, 4,107 women developed invasive breast cancer.

Women are at risk for developing breast cancer if we are exposed to too much estrogen during our lifetime.

People who have had x-ray treatment for cancers of the head and neck may develop hypothyroidism if their thyroid was exposed to radiation during the cancer treatment.

«We developed this program during our thirty years of collective work in the fields of naturopathy, Oriental medicine, acupuncture, nutrition and integrative oncology... Dr Nasha's personal cancer experience began over twenty years ago when a diagnosis of stage IV ovarian cancer veered her away from pursuing a conventional medical degree and toward the study of naturopathic medicine.

The researchers behind the new study developed a testing regimen called PapSEEK to see if additional samples collected during a pelvic exam could be used to detect endometrial or ovarian cancer.

We stopped updating diet at the beginning of the time interval during which individuals developed cancer (except nonmelanoma skin cancer), cardiovascular diseases, or gestational diabetes because changes in diet after development of these conditions may confound the relationship between diet and diabetes (21).

It was during my journey that I realized the lack of resources for women in my specific situation — young women who weren't survivors but were at high risk for developing breast and ovarian cancer and those who wanted to take charge of their health.

Though Reiser develops several of Adam's relationships — with his girlfriend, his mother, his young therapist (Anna Kendrick), and two old cancer patients he meets during chemotherapy (Matt Frewer and Philip Baker Hall)-- the most interesting of them turns out to be his friendship with Kyle.

As long as premiums are paid, the company can never cancel your coverage or increase your premium during the stated term, even if you develop cancer or other health conditions.

Guaranteed Protection If your application is approved and as long as your premiums are paid, the company can not cancel your policy during the stated term, even if you develop cancer or other health conditions.

Currently in its fifth year, this 14 - year study relies on the fact that powerful new bioinformatic technologies and discoveries will be developed during the course of the study, and computational analytics will employ these vast networks to create new understanding, diagnostics, and canine cancer treatments.

It is considered similar to pediatric osteosarcoma in humans, a bone cancer that usually develops during the period of rapid growth that occurs in adolescence, as a teenager matures into an adult.