Sentences with phrase «elevated lung cancer risk»

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Gene variants have been linked to elevated risks for disorders from Alzheimer's disease to breast cancer, and they may help explain why, for example, some smokers develop lung cancer whereas many others don't.

Men who had smoked were nearly twice as likely to die from cancer, especially lung cancer, but there was also an elevated risk of death from cancers of the head and neck, esophagus, stomach, colorectum, liver, pancreas and bladder — all diseases that have been linked to smoking in previous studies, according to the authors.

The study found a modestly elevated risk of subsequent malignancies in individuals having a non-melanoma skin cancer history, particularly lung and breast cancers in women and also melanoma in women and men.

Just finished reading the study, which he so cheekily teased us with at the end of this video, and apparently there's no elevated risk for developping cancer (including prostate, breast, colon and rectum, melanoma, bladder, kidney, and lung), even when eating more than 5 servings (one serving = one cup) of rice per week... What gives?!

The only known health effect associated with exposure to elevated levels of radon is an increased risk of developing lung cancer.