Sentences with phrase «highest cause of cancer»

Unfortunately, colorectal cancer is the second highest cause of cancer deaths in the United States, even though it is one of the more preventable cancers.

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In fact, the highest cause of canine death in America is cancer.

Contamination from upstream tar sands / oil sands development is causing higher levels of cancer and other serious disease for members of the Athabasca Chipewyan and...

There's been a high cost in terms of women's health, including an epidemic of infertility caused by sexually transmitted infections, and a startling rise in cervical and oral cancers among young women from the same cause.

Arugula has very high levels of chlorophyll, which helps with liver damage and contains phytochemicals that fight cancer - causing carcinogens.

Gluten stimulates the immune system to go on immediate alert causing such extreme inflammation that individuals with Celiac disease experience abdominal pain, nutrient deficiency and are at a higher risk of developing gastrointestinal cancer.

Most of the foods that industry currently provide are very high in salt, fat, and sugars and are therefore more likely to cause cardiovascular disease and predispose to cancer than healthier alternatives.

Soy has high levels of phytoestrogen which can affect your baby's development while carrageenan can cause stomach problems or some forms of cancer.

Baking sweet potatoes at high temps like that causes them to blacken, the black contains high levels of acrylamide which can cause cancer.

Before people filled the auditorium at Hoosick Falls Junior - Senior High School for a state Senate hearing chaired by Marchione on the Hoosick Falls and Petersburgh water crises and other water quality issues, Shaun Francis held a news conference to unveil a billboard critical of his opponent's response to the discovery of perfluorooctanoic acid, a suspected cancer - causing chemical, in both the village water system and wells in the village and surrounding town of Hoosick.

Warren County, which has the highest rate of cancer in the state, will be one of four regions to be studied by the state to establish trends and potential causes contributing to the disease, state officials announced.

Obesity and overweight can cause serious health problems, including type 2 diabetes, heart disease, stroke, asthma, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, several forms of cancer, and osteoarthritis.

Martinez says PFOA has been shown to cause higher levels of testicular cancer, thyroid disease and kidney cancer, which is what claimed the life of John Hickey.

Governor Cuomo announced a new statewide initiative to examine cancer patterns and the potential causes of cancer in 4 regions across the state that have a higher incidence of certain cancers.

The high - risk types of HPV can cause cancer, and the two behind most HPV - related cancers are types 16 and 18.

A pair of environmental monitoring wells drilled deep into an aquifer in Pavillion, Wyo., contain high levels of cancer - causing compounds and at least one chemical commonly used in hydraulic fracturing, according to new water test results released yesterday by the Environmental Protection Agency.

Conventional, high - dose chemotherapy treatments can cause the fibroblast cells surrounding tumors to secrete proteins that promote the tumors» recurrence in more aggressive forms, researchers at Taipei Medical University and the National Institute of Cancer Research in Taiwan and University of California, San Francisco, have discovered.

Tobacco, obesity, diabetes, high alcohol intake and a family history of pancreatic cancer are all recognised risk factors for the disease, but explain less than 40 % of cases and important causes of the increasing trends yet have to be identified.

Higher amounts of insulin are more likely to cause cells to lose their ability to regulate growth, a precursor to cancer.

In a draft of the health impact assessment released in February 2011, the School of Public Health researchers concluded that without pollution control measures, emissions from drilling would likely be high enough to cause disease in Battlement Mesa, including respiratory and neurological problems, birth defects and cancer.

«One likely cause of more skin cancer among gay and bisexual men is greater exposure to ultraviolet radiation caused by indoor tanning,» said Arron, who also directs the UCSF High Risk Cancer Prcancer among gay and bisexual men is greater exposure to ultraviolet radiation caused by indoor tanning,» said Arron, who also directs the UCSF High Risk Cancer PrCancer Program.

Dr. Catalona, who was the first physician in the U.S. to run the phi test, added, «However, the problem is that higher levels of PSA can also be caused by a benign enlargement or inflammation of the prostate, leading to many false ‐ positives for cancer and ultimately unnecessarily invasive biopsies and an increased potential for patient harm.»

A study published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology in January of 2015 led by a Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre researcher found that the likelihood of dying of other causes for a group of men with low - risk prostate cancer in the study was about nine times higher than the risk of dying from the prostate cancer.

High doses of this compound, the antiseptic triclocarban, or TCC, impair reproduction in rats and may cause cancer in humans, but it's not clear whether the concentrations in fields — and presumably in food — are dangerous.

TEMPERATURES are rising in France over a proposed change to European safety rules that would ban high concentrations of a chemical in suntan lotions because of suspicions that it may cause cancer.

Scientists at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and the Institute for Research on Cancer and Ageing of Nice in France, show that high genetic diversity can prime new mutations that cause drug resistance.

Diabetes is linked to an increased risk of developing cancer, and now researchers have performed a unique meta - analysis that excludes all other causes of death and found that diabetic patients not only have an increased risk of developing breast and colon cancer but an even higher risk of dying from them.

«This is the first study to illustrate that a structural abnormality in the 3» untranslated region of the PD - L1 gene causes an abnormally high production of PD - L1 protein, consequently aiding cancer immune escape,» says one of the lead authors, Keisuke Kataoka, at Kyoto University.

«The higher HPV vaccination rates among girls living in poor communities and majority Hispanic communities, which also tend to have high poverty rates, are encouraging because these communities often have higher cervical cancer rates, but continued cervical cancer screening of vaccinated and unvaccinated women is needed because the vaccine does not cover all cancer - causing HPV types and sexually active women could have been infected prior to vaccination.»

A new study from the University of Illinois reports that including broccoli in the diet may also protect against liver cancer, as well as aid in countering the development of fatty liver or nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) which can cause malfunction of the liver and lead to hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), a liver cancer with a high mortality rate.

This high mortality is primarily caused by resistance to therapy and the diagnosis of ovarian cancer after it has already metastasized, which occurs in approximately 80 percent of patients.

The second question is more difficult to answer than it might seem because the low prevalence of cancer and diabetes in Laron patients is counterbalanced by an abnormally high risk of death from other causes, especially accidents, alcohol, and convulsive disorders.

«Genetic mutations warn of skin cancer risk: New high - risk cancer causing mutation identified for melanoma development.»

They found that men who ate mostly a Western diet (those in the highest quartile of the Western dietary pattern) had two - and - a-half times higher risk of prostate cancer - related death — and a 67 % increased risk of death from any cause — than those in the lowest quartile.

HCC can be caused by several factors including a high - fat diet, and this form of liver cancer is increasing due to rising obesity.

The study drilled down in particular on patients who had a high risk of dying from a cause other than prostate cancer within 10 years.

Stroke is the cause of one in every 19 U.S. and has estimated annual cost of $ 315 billion — 56 percent higher than treatment associated costs of all cancers, according to the American Heart Association.

Telomerase reverse transcriptase promoter mutations can cause high - level reactivation of the telomerase enzyme in bladder cancer.

It is now clear that mutations in the cancer cell cause the violent ruffling, which leads to a high density of vacuoles (those fluid - filled bubbles visible within the cell).

Failure to produce new bone marrow can be caused by disease, trauma, or some cancer treatments, and can lead to a significantly higher risk of infections, and the need for blood transfusions.

In animal tests and in accidental high - level exposures of humans, the chemicals have caused a range of damage and disease, including cancers, sterility, and birth defects.

Prespecified secondary outcomes: diagnostic cancer stage and Gleason grade (range, 2 - 10; higher scores indicate a poorer prognosis) of prostate cancers identified, all - cause mortality, and an instrumental variable analysis estimating the causal effect of attending the PSA screening clinic.

High - salt consumption has long been associated with an elevated risk of gastric cancer due to an increased risk of H pylori infection, as well as promotion of H pylori virulence via cagA.59, 60 A study by Loh and colleagues demonstrated that a high - salt concentration upregulates expression of cagA for select H pylori strains with a unique DNA motif.61 A follow - up animal study demonstrated that cagA - positive H pylori strains were needed to cause an inflammatory reaction in response to high - salt concentrationHigh - salt consumption has long been associated with an elevated risk of gastric cancer due to an increased risk of H pylori infection, as well as promotion of H pylori virulence via cagA.59, 60 A study by Loh and colleagues demonstrated that a high - salt concentration upregulates expression of cagA for select H pylori strains with a unique DNA motif.61 A follow - up animal study demonstrated that cagA - positive H pylori strains were needed to cause an inflammatory reaction in response to high - salt concentrationhigh - salt concentration upregulates expression of cagA for select H pylori strains with a unique DNA motif.61 A follow - up animal study demonstrated that cagA - positive H pylori strains were needed to cause an inflammatory reaction in response to high - salt concentrationhigh - salt concentrations.62

High levels of UV radiation cause skin cancer and blindness.

We reviewed 10 observational studies, all of which showed some evidence that people who continue to smoke after a diagnosis of early stage lung cancer have an associated higher risk of recurrence, second primary tumour, or all cause mortality compared with those who stop smoking at that time.

High - grade serous ovarian cancer (HGSOC) is an aggressive subtype that causes nearly 90 % of ovarian cancer deaths.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, mortality associated with chronic liver disease ranks as the 12th most common cause of death in the U.S., but may be as high as 8th if obesity - related fatty liver disease, viral hepatitis, and liver cancer are included in the equation.

You don't have to go cold turkey on carbs, but do know this: A recent study found that a diet high on the glycemic index — that is, one that's full of refined carbohydrates that cause blood sugar levels to spike — may be associated with a greater risk of lung cancer, even among non-smokers.

One study found that organic milk has significantly higher concentrations of the hormones estradiol and progesterone which may help prevent the potentially breast cancer - causing effects of milk's Vitamin D, but had a lower concentration of IGF - 1, the hormone that triggers the onset of puberty [11][12].

«Dr. Michael Greger, the internationally renowned nutrition expert and physician, examines the 15 top causes of premature death in America — heart disease, various cancers, diabetes, Parkinson's, high blood pressure, and more — and explains how nutritional and lifestyle interventions can sometimes trump prescription pills and other pharmaceutical and surgical approaches, freeing us to live healthier lives.»