Sentences with phrase «higher lung cancer rates»

The same study revealed higher lung cancer rates in short to medium length nosed dogs who live with smokers (like boxers and bulldogs) because their shorter nasal passages allow the carcinogenic particles to reach the lungs more easily.

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Smoking in cars can expose children's lungs to levels of carcinogens and toxins at rates 10 times higher than when smoking was permitted in bars, added Dr. Mark Travers, a research scientist in the Division of Cancer Prevention and Population Sciences at Roswell.

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.

Professor La Vecchia said: «There is a moderate fall in deaths rates in female lung cancer in the UK, although UK rates are still higher than in other EU countries, except Denmark, as British women started to smoke earlier.

The importance of these neighbour proteins was also seen in other networks constructed for breast cancer, hepatocellular carcinoma and non-small cell lung cancer, other «solid» cancers where new drugs are needed to tackle high mortality rates.

Breast cancer has a high rate of metastasis to bone, lung, liver, lymph nodes, and the brain.

By tracking the mortality rates of people exposed to arsenic - contaminated drinking water in a region in Chile, the researchers provide evidence of increases in lung, bladder, and kidney cancer even 40 years after high arsenic exposures ended.

Smith's analysis showed that Antofagasta residents exposed to the city's water between 1958 and 1970 had experienced markedly higher rates of bladder and lung cancer.

One of the fastest expanding types of cancer in the developed world, malignant melanoma has a high mortality rate — which is one reason that researchers at Sahlgrenska Academy were so anxious to follow up on the lung cancer studies.

A higher rate of lung cancer among men who had had vasectomies more than 20 years earlier was offset by a lower rate of cardiovascular disease.

In a study of 124 patients with advanced breast, lung, and prostate cancers, a new, high - intensity genomic sequencing approach detected circulating tumor DNA at a high rate.

Lung cancer is one of the tumors having higher mortality rates worldwide.

With the advancement of surgical and radiation therapy strategies for stage 1 non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC), more patients are being treated, resulting in higher survival rates, according to a study published online today in The Annals of Thoracic Surgery.

For example, a recent study of outcomes after lung cancer surgery demonstrated fewer complications and a higher success rate of cancerous node removal in patients who had their procedures performed by a thoracic surgeon, rather than a cardiac or general surgeon.

Cancers related to chronic mutagenic exposures, such as lung cancer (tobacco smoke) and cutaneous melanoma (UV radiation), have the highest rates of somatic mutations.

Mutation rates ten-fold higher than typical lung cancers in humans, though within three-fold of «hypermutator» tumors with mutations in DNA repair genes.

That's why it's possible to have a very high validation rate (> 90 %) for somatic mutations in solid tumors like lung cancer.

Now, on Nov. 5, a news story likened those findings to the results of a large trial by the National Cancer Institute, which showed that CT scans reduced mortality rates among the highest - risk lung cancer patients by 20 peCancer Institute, which showed that CT scans reduced mortality rates among the highest - risk lung cancer patients by 20 pecancer patients by 20 percent.

The NPR story reported that another recent study found that the false - positive rate for lung CT (computerized tomography) is 33 percent among those who have had two screening tests — higher than the National Cancer Institute trial found.

Cancer treatment has come on leaps and bounds in recent years, but mortality rates in lung and breast cancer are stillCancer treatment has come on leaps and bounds in recent years, but mortality rates in lung and breast cancer are stillcancer are still high.

For three of the most common cancers — lung, colorectal and prostate — incidence and mortality are decreasing for all ethnic groups, but African - Americans consistently have the highest rates for all three cancers;

In 2002, study researchers stopped giving HT to women with an intact uterus when it became clear that the risks of taking combined hormones (estrogen plus a progestin)-- higher rates of stroke, breast cancer, heart attack, and blood clots in the lungs and legs — outweighed the benefits, namely, reductions in osteoporotic fractures and colorectal cancer.

Green tea is rich in flavonoids, which may explain why Asians have less lung cancer, despite their higher smoking rates.

According to the FDA, «Long - term exposure to high levels of arsenic is associated with higher rates of skin, bladder and lung cancers, as well as heart disease.»

Higher levels of green tea consumption in Asia are thought to be responsible for lower lung cancer rates, despite higher smoking Higher levels of green tea consumption in Asia are thought to be responsible for lower lung cancer rates, despite higher smoking higher smoking rates.

Interestingly, the nasal tumor rate was even higher among long - nosed breeds, and shorteror medium - nosed breeds had a higher incidence of lung cancer.

This cancer is characterized by a high rate of spread to other parts of the body, especially the lungs and other bones.

Lung cancer and asthma hospitalization rates for children and adults are higher for the Duwamish Valley compared to King County as a whole, with asthma rates 67 percent higher for children and 60 percent higher for adults due to air pollutants released with the burning of fossil fuels.

However, the number of women dying from lung cancer is increasing steadily everywhere apart from in the UK, which has had the highest rates in women for a decade and is now seeing a leveling off.

People in the most remote areas have much higher rates of lung cancer, while people in regional areas have higher rates of melanoma.