Sentences with phrase «in lung cancer mortality»

The National Lung Screening Trial (NLST) reported a reduction in lung cancer mortality in high - risk participants aged 55 to 74 who were randomly assigned to screening with low - dose computed tomography (LDCT) versus chest radiography.

In a study in the current issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, researchers found that women working rotating night shifts for five or more years appeared to have a modest increase in all - cause and CVD mortality and those working 15 or more years of rotating night shift work appeared to have a modest increase in lung cancer mortality.

On the other hand, the continuing increase in lung cancer mortality among European women represents a challenge for cancer control, and the steady increase in pancreatic cancer deserves high priority for research.»

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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.

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.

There was no association between rotating shift work and any cancer mortality, except for lung cancer in those who worked shift work for 15 or more years (25 % higher risk).

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.

Lung cancer mortality rates among young women (30 - 49 years) were stable or declining in 47 of the 52 populations examined.

Lung cancer mortality rates (per 100,000) during 2006 - 2010 ranged from 0.7 in Costa Rica to 14.8 in Hungary among young women and from 8.8 in Georgia to 120.0 in Scotland among older women.

«Lung Cancer Mortality and Exposure to Radon Progeny in a Cohort of New Mexico Underground Uranium Miners,» J.M. Samet, D.R. Pathak, M.V. Morgan, C.R. Key, A.A. Valdivia, and J.H. Lubin; Health Physics, Vol.

Fig 3 Effect of continued smoking on all cause mortality, development of a second primary, or recurrence in small cell lung cancer.

No study contained data on the effect of quitting smoking on cancer specific mortality or on development of a second primary tumour in non-small cell lung cancer.

The biological mechanisms by which toxins in tobacco smoke cause lung cancer are complex and still not completely understood, but carcinogens in tobacco smoke may not only act as genetic inducers but also act to promote progression of the disease.6 7 As well as potentially reducing the risk of cancer related morbidity and mortality, quitting smoking at diagnosis could reduce overall mortality, as smoking cessation reduces mortality from other diseases such as heart disease, stroke, and chronic obstructive airways disease.8 9

It can pick up early lung cancers and can reduce mortality from lung cancer by about 20 %, but a large number of the early lesions that are seen probably never would go on to being lethal cancer and being able to discriminate between those that will cause trouble and those that won't make a huge difference in cancer therapy.

Four studies reported estimates of the association between continued smoking and all cause mortality, one study reported the association with occurrence of a second primary tumour, and one study with recurrence in non-small cell lung cancer (fig 2 ⇓).

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.

Researchers were able to confirm a direct association between animal - based low - carb diets in males and increased cancer mortality, especially from colorectal and lung cancer.

High quercetin intake (mainly from apples and onions) was associated with lower asthma incidence and lower mortality from ischemic heart disease in general population, and in lower incidence of lung cancer in men.

Study after study has shown that increased consumption of cruciferous vegetables — including broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, mustard greens and kale — is strongly associated with reductions in mortality — and offers particular protection against cancers of the breast, prostate, bladder and lung.

It is very well worth noting that consumption of red meat prepared in different ways has been associated with a higher risk of colon, liver, lung, and esophagus cancer, the possibility of developing type 2 diabetes, and mortality in the past.

In rural areas, liver, lung, and stomach cancers each accounts for close to 20 percent of cancer mortality.

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.

Moreover, the paper gets its history wrong when it notes that «Total cancer mortality rates did not decline until 1990, 25 years after the identification of the effect of smoking on lung and other cancers...» Well, actually, it was more like 50 years, because the earliest studies to connect smoking and lung cancer were conducted not by NIH - funded scientists but by Nazi scientists in the run - up to World War II.4 By the logic of the PNAS paper, then, ought we to be crediting the Nazi health science agenda with whatever progress has been made on reducing lung cancer, rather than the incredibly protracted and difficult public health campaign (that, for the most part, NIH had nothing to do with) aimed at getting people to cut down on smoking?

According to the World Health Organization, they are now recognized as causing «respiratory and cardiovascular morbidity, such as aggravation of asthma, respiratory symptoms and an increase in hospital admissions; mortality from cardiovascular and respiratory diseases and from lung cancer.»

Felitti and colleagues1 first described ACEs and defined it as exposure to psychological, physical or sexual abuse, and household dysfunction including substance abuse (problem drinking / alcoholic and / or street drugs), mental illness, a mother treated violently and criminal behaviour in the household.1 Along with the initial ACE study, other studies have characterised ACEs as neglect, parental separation, loss of family members or friends, long - term financial adversity and witness to violence.2 3 From the original cohort of 9508 American adults, more than half of respondents (52 %) experienced at least one adverse childhood event.1 Since the original cohort, ACE exposures have been investigated globally revealing comparable prevalence to the original cohort.4 5 More recently in 2014, a survey of 4000 American children found that 60.8 % of children had at least one form of direct experience of violence, crime or abuse.6 The ACE study precipitated interest in the health conditions of adults maltreated as children as it revealed links to chronic diseases such as obesity, autoimmune diseases, heart, lung and liver diseases, and cancer in adulthood.1 Since then, further evidence has revealed relationships between ACEs and physical and mental health outcomes, such as increased risk of substance abuse, suicide and premature mortality.4 7