Sentences with phrase «global cancer burden»

I remain committed to a career in translational cancer research and to alleviating the global cancer burden.

«This is the first comprehensive study of its kind and shows the potential to not only reduce the global cancer burden, but also guide clinical decision - making with regard to childhood vaccinations,» said Marc T. Goodman, PhD, MPH, senior author of the study and director of Cancer Prevention and Genetics at the Cedars - Sinai Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute.

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This review examines three areas of study — one, the biological pathways of alcohol - linked breast cancer; two, the epidemiological risk relationship between drinking and breast cancer; and three, the global burden of breast cancer incidence and mortality that is attributable to drinking — with a focus on light drinking.

Finally, an estimate of the burden of alcohol - attributable breast cancer incidence and mortality by means of a Population - Attributable Fraction methodology (using data on alcohol consumption from the Global Information System on Alcohol and Health, and data on cancer incidence and mortality from the GLOBOCAN database) showed that an estimated 144,000 breast - cancer cases and 38,000 breast - cancer deaths globally in 2012 were attributable to alcohol, with 18.8 % of these cases and 17.5 % of these deaths affecting women who were light drinkers.

However, although people are living longer, they are not necessarily healthier than before — nearly a quarter (23 %) of the overall global burden of death and illness is in people aged over 60, and much of this burden is attributable to long - term illness caused by diseases such as cancer, chronic respiratory diseases, heart disease, musculoskeletal diseases (such as arthritis and osteoporosis), and mental and neurological disorders.

«The Burden of Cancer in Developing Countries: A Global Health Council Report on the Cancer Advocacy and Learning Institute,» published in June of 2010, documents both the incidence of the disease and a set of policy solutions.

Global burden of cancers attributable to infections in 2008: A review and synthetic analysis.

UICC selected the theme to explore «how everyone — as a collective or as individuals — can do their part to reduce the global burden of cancer.»

Alcohol's contribution to prostate cancer will need to be factored into future estimates of the global burden of disease,» said study co-author Tim Stockwell in a University of Victoria news release.

Evidence also exists of associations with low birth weight, increased infant and perinatal mortality, pulmonary tuberculosis, nasopharyngeal and laryngeal cancer, cataract, and, specifically in respect of the use of coal, with lung cancer... Exposure to indoor air pollution may be responsible for nearly 2 million excess deaths in developing countries and for some 4 % of the global burden of disease.