Sentences with phrase «high number of cancer»

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Newfoundland and Labrador also has some of the highest per capita rates of a number of diseases, including colon cancer, diabetes, and psoriasis.

«I only have the data at a very high level, but we did detect a small number of people who tested positively in their DNA for being at risk for cancer.

We have the highest percentage of «Christians» in this nation with the largest prison population, the larger number of drug users and that is a nation divided over religion because of god fearing Christians who believe in this wondrous loving god that gives little girls cancer to test the faith of her parents as they watch her dying.

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.

Dr. Marcus Martinez, who helped blow the whistle on the problem after he noticed a high number of people visiting his office with unusual types of cancers, already is hearing from people who moved away and are now sick.

The chemicals have been linked to a number of health problems, including cancer, thyroid problems and high cholesterol.

By the group's calculation, the mass screenings incurred a high likelihood of invasive follow - up testing and anxiety while finding a relatively small number of cancers that would have been lethal if they were caught later.

For instance, among the six largest countries, although the actual numbers of female deaths from lung cancer will still be the highest in the UK in 2016 than in the other large countries (at 16,400), the rate per 100,000 women has started to fall (from 20.15 per 100,000 in 2013 to 19.37 predicted in 2016), while death rates are still rising in the other countries.

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

As the number of confirmed cancers rose, worries grew about a link to radiation — and those concerns gained a high - profile proponent.

In 2013, Toshihide Tsuda, an environmental epidemiologist at Okayama University in Japan, started presenting analyses at international conferences claiming the number of thyroid cancers in the Fukushima screening was unusually high.

Advanced disease was associated with the highest number of complications: 23 percent of patients whose cancer had spread throughout the body had thyroid surgery specific complications, a number the researchers call «alarming.»

The number of breast cancer patients undergoing immediate breast reconstruction operations after mastectomy has grown steadily over the past 15 years, most notably among women who were once considered too high - risk for reconstruction procedures according to new research findings published in the October 2014 issue of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons.

And there is no evidence of a higher than normal number of thyroid cancers in this group of patients.

They find that tumors lacking Numb have increased numbers of cancer stem cells, thus providing the tumor with a higher potential to spread and grow.

The trial enrolled 398 men with cancer that had not spread outside the prostate gland who were judged to be at high risk of treatment failure, based on standard tests for a number of features of the cancer.

In the group of patients with aggressive, or high risk, prostate cancer, the average number of days from diagnosis to surgery or radiation treatment was 96 days for Caucasian patients, and 105 days for African American patients.

The study builds on Polyak's earlier research finding that women already identified as having a high risk of developing cancer — namely those with a mutation called BRCA1 or BRCA2 — or women who did not give birth before their 30s had a higher number of mammary gland progenitor cells.

REVEALER is a powerful approach but requires as input high - quality genomic data and a significant number of cancer samples, which can be a challenge, Tamayo says.

They found that cancer stem cells seemed to appear in the highest numbers along the edges of the engineered tumor environments, particularly where there were corners and convex curves.

«MCL - 1 is found at high levels in a number of blood cancers and also many solid tumours, so there has been a strong drive to develop potential anti-cancer compounds that target MCL - 1,» he said.

Although the cure rate for breast cancer is high — it has an 89 percent 5 - year survival rate — a large number of patients have a recurrence of their cancer.

«As the population of the United States ages, there will be a higher number of lung cancer patients with comorbidities at diagnosis.»

An analysis of lung cancer incidence and screening found a decline in the proportion of patients with lung cancer meeting high - risk screening criteria, suggesting that an increasing number of patients with lung cancer would not have been candidates for screening, according to a study in the February 24 issue of JAMA.

Further, risk of high - grade prostate cancer did not increase according to the total number of testosterone injections.

Researchers from the University of Leicester's Department of Cancer Studies and Molecular Medicine, in collaboration with Cleaver Scientific Ltd., have developed a novel, high throughput method of performing the assay which is set to overcome this problem and to push down the costs of processing large numbers of samples.

Used in conjunction with mammography, imaging based on nuclear medicine is currently being used as a successful secondary screening alongside mammography to reduce the number of false positive results in women with dense breasts and at higher risk for developing breast cancer.

Localized love Several viruses, including hepatitis viruses and a herpesvirus, have been linked to cancers, but HPV is responsible for the highest number of virus - related malignancies.

An analysis that included information from more than 57,000 screening colonoscopies suggests that higher adenoma detection rates may be associated with up to 50 percent to 60 percent lower lifetime colorectal cancer incidence and death without higher overall costs, despite a higher number of colonoscopies and potential complications, according to a study in the June 16 issue of JAMA.

While circulating tumor DNA tests targeting a smaller set of cancer genes are already available for use in routine practice to guide care, by covering a much larger number of cancer genes, this high - intensity sequencing approach may enable development of future tests for early detection of cancer.

A new study reveals that African - Americans have measurable differences in the number and type of bacteria that live in the colon — and those differences are related to their higher - than - average colon cancer risk.

The study also finds no evidence that lipofilling affects the risk of initial breast cancer for the growing number of high - risk women undergoing «preventive» mastectomy.

The Reproducibility Project: Cancer Biology is an initiative to independently replicate selected results from a number of high - profile papers in the field of cancer biCancer Biology is an initiative to independently replicate selected results from a number of high - profile papers in the field of cancer bicancer biology.

Therefore, the absolute number of women with high and low levels of cancer DNA in their blood in the analysis of progression - free survival was different from that of the overall survival analysis.

The Reproducibility Project: Cancer Biology seeks to address growing concerns about reproducibility in scientific research by replicating selected results from a substantial number of high - profile papers in the field of cancer biology published between 2010 andCancer Biology seeks to address growing concerns about reproducibility in scientific research by replicating selected results from a substantial number of high - profile papers in the field of cancer biology published between 2010 andcancer biology published between 2010 and 2012.

Hu and his collaborator Juan R. Del Valle at the University of South Florida are developing novel small molecule inhibitors against IRE - 1 to combat cancers associated with high numbers of MDSCs.

Although of course there are a number of caveats since mice can be cured from cancer at higher rates, they don't suffer from some of our diseases, they are sensitive to being handled (if grabbing them can shorten their lifespan through stress, the mouse version of standard human medical care may do the same), so I guess that increases in maximum lifespan are indeed the only reliable indicator that an intervention is impacting age - related mortality.

There are a number of possible reasons why IVF kids might be at higher risk for some cancers, said Amirian and her editorial coauthor, Melissa Bondy, also of Baylor's Duncan Cancer Center.

When tested on 335 high - risk lesions, the model correctly diagnosed 97 percent of the breast cancers as malignant and reduced the number of benign surgeries by more than 30 percent compared to existing approaches.

Cancer survivors are at high risk for a number of diseases and conditions, some of which can be prevented with good diet and exercise; changing lifestyle behaviors, though, has proven difficult.

Furthermore, the prevalence of CD44 + CD24 - cells in breast cancer patients indicates a link between high numbers of stem - like cancer cells and metastasis [16].

Most tumors contain fewer than 10 of the driver mutations, but the number of total mutations — passenger and driver — can climb far higher, from a dozen or so in neuroblastoma to approximately 200 in lung cancer.

«Simultaneous mutation detection, copy number measurement, and digital gene expression profiling of high - grade serous ovarian cancer FFPE samples using Hyb & SeqTM targeted sequencing technology»

Non-physiological alterations in chromosome number are well - established contributors to human disorders: they are responsible of a high percentage of miscarriages and a panel of diseases including Down syndrome, developmental disorders and cancer.

Although the number of deaths from prostate cancer continues to decline among all men, the death rate remains more than twice as high in black men than any other group.

There is evidence that visceral fat and high - fat diets can increase cancer risk; and while current cancer treatments have helped to lower cancer mortality, the number of obesity - associated cancers continues to climb.»

Association and prognostic significance of BRCA1 / 2 - mutation status with neoantigen load, number of tumor - infiltrating lymphocytes and expression of PD - 1 / PD - L1 in high grade serous ovarian cancer.

The total number of cell equivalents tested for detection of FMc was higher in the controls than in the breast cancer cases (mean 8.2 × 104 (95 % CI 7.2 — 9.2 × 104) in controls versus 5.6 × 104 (95 % CI 4.9 — 6.3 × 104) in cases).

FMc concentrations were significantly higher in the controls than in the women with history of breast cancer (p = 0.01) in a model of the ranked values adjusted for age, number of children, birth of a son, history of miscarriage, oral contraceptive use, and total number of genomes tested.

A gene screen revealed a number of genetic changes in the first (daughter) and third (great granddaughter) high - fat mice generations, including several linked to increased breast cancer in women, increased resistance to treatment, poor prognosis, and impaired anticancer immunity.