Not exact matches
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 bi
Cancer Biology is an initiative to independently replicate selected results from a
number of high - profile papers in the field
of cancer bi
cancer 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 and
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 and
cancer 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.