Sentences with phrase «in women with cancer»

T.S., et al. «Impact of Mindfulness - Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) on attention, rumination and resting blood pressure in women with cancer: A waitlist - controlled study.»

10/8/2007 UC San Diego Medical Center Participates in $ 21 Million Program to Preserve Fertility in Women with Cancer The University of California, San Diego Medical Center, in collaboration with four leading academic medical centers, will share a $ 21 million National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant for a landmark national research, clinical, and education program... More...

Velculescu cautions that medical practice may not change much until additional studies validate their findings, and there are ongoing clinical trials studying the removal of fallopian tubes instead of ovaries in women with cancer - causing, hereditary BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations.

Not exact matches

A panel of three entrepreneurs discussed the relationship between purpose and profitability in greater depth: Pocket Sun, who, as founding partner of female - focused VC firm SoGal Ventures, has a purpose of «building an empire for millennial women to invest in startups»; Eileen Gittins, a serial entrepreneur who founded book self - publishing firm Blurb and now runs Bossygrl, a mobile app meant to introduce Gen Z girls to entrepreneurship by helping them launch micro-businesses; and Cathie Reid, co-founder and current digital advisor to Icon Group, an Australian cancer - care company with annual revenue of more than $ 1.5 billion.

Non-Hispanic black (NHB) women «continued to have higher breast cancer death rates than [non-Hispanic white] women, with rates 39 % higher in NHB women in 2015, although the disparity has ceased to widen since 2011.»

The marketing is edgy: October's «Touch Yourself» campaign in partnership with Women's Health and Men's Health magazines ditches traditional pink National Breast Cancer Awareness Month branding in favor of a naked woman holding her breasts, encouraging women to do self - exams for early detecWomen's Health and Men's Health magazines ditches traditional pink National Breast Cancer Awareness Month branding in favor of a naked woman holding her breasts, encouraging women to do self - exams for early detecwomen to do self - exams for early detection.

The women in the studies who were the most active had a lower risk of developing cancer compared with those who exercised the least.

Other gifts include a Christmas tree sent to a couple living in a hotel because their home was destroyed in a tornado, a travel care package sent to a woman with cancer who had to travel across the country every three weeks for treatment, and a package of new toys sent to a little girl whose own were destroyed in a fire.

The original inspiration for the app came from an encounter Isenberg had with a woman in Los Angeles who had been diagnosed with a rare type of cancer.

With 1,500 cervical cancer diagnoses and 380 deaths from the disease each year in Canada alone, there's no doubt easier screening could have a huge impact on women's health care.

Started in 2010 by the CCTFA Foundation, Facingcancer.ca is an online community for women with cancer and their support networks.

Shkreli, who was arrested Thursday morning on securities fraud charges, has effectively waved a red flag for months in front of federal prosecutors, keeping himself in the media glare with a hugely controversial price hike of a drug that benefits AIDS patients, pregnant women and cancer patients, attacking his critics, including presidential contender Hillary Clinton, and lighting up Twitter with outrageous statements.

«Shoppers Drug Mart has played a significant role in helping us in our mission to foster greater awareness, support and understanding of the social and emotional needs of women living with cancer since 2011,» says Ms. Abbott.

Together we plan to build a stronger coalition in support of women with all cancers.

Ending poverty, fighting cancer, and bringing women into tech fields: all in a day's work, along with simpler pleasures like reading a...

Over the past two decades, Dr. Bear, a researcher and surgeon, has led international trials that have resulted in major changes in the treatment of breast cancer and dramatically increased the chance for breast conservation among women with breast cancer.

The woman asking this of her sister had been in an out of the hospital struggling with an aggressive breast cancer for three years.

During a given week, he may be called to the home where a child has died, asked to appear in court to help a teen - ager in trouble with the law, consulted by a woman suffering from menopausal emotional problems, called on by a man who has just learned he has cancer, and another whose self - esteem is shaken by mandatory retirement.

His companion for over thirty years was a woman old enough to be his mother; and when she died it was not long before, like a Pavlovian dog trained to lacerate his heart with the same emotional experiences, he, married a woman whose circumstances were exactly parallel to those of his own mother in 1908 — a woman dying of cancer who had two small sons.»

HPV types 6 and 11, which can cause genital warts, were detected in 1.3 and 0.1 percent of women, respectively, and types 16 and 18, which are linked with some cases of cervical cancer, were present in only 1.5 and 0.8 percent!

Recognizing this, in October 2011 the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) issued new guidelines recommending that women be tested for cervical cancer with Pap tests (not HPV tests) every three years rather than annually because more frequent testing leads to overtreatment of low - grade changes that would in all likelihood not turn out to be cancerous.

However, with the exception of women who consumed a high intake of soy during adolescence, the majority of epidemiological studies (studies carried out in defined population groups) have not found that women with higher soy intakes are at lower risk of breast cancer.

We would spend another $ 15 billion vaccinating all males in this target age range — with zero benefits to them and absolutely no assurance or evidence that this «experiment» would ultimately reduce the rate of cervical cancer in women.

Since its inception in 1989, Project Angel Food has delivered more than 10 million meals to men, women and children who are debilitated by disease and struggling with life - threatening illnesses such as cancer, heart disease, renal failure and HIV / AIDS.

Yet 20 % of women diagnosed with lung cancer each year — about 21,000 in 2010, roughly the same number as new cases of ovarian cancer — never smoked.

Let me use an example from public health: white woman have a higher rate of developing breast cancer over black woman in the United States, yet even with more cases fewer white woman die from breast cancer than black woman.

While Giguere distributed Ducks dolls and slippers to children in the cancer ward and paused to chat with parents, a young woman emerged from the nurses» station with a copy of The Orange County Register.

He's gone through some life - altering moments — he's had two bouts with cancer, he married relatively late in life to a gorgeous and charming woman, and they are the parents to two lovely little boys.

And in women who have been treated for breast cancer, a history of radiation therapy is also associated with increased risk of heart disease.

By Andrew M. Seaman NEW YORK (Reuters Health)- Factors other than medical history and risk may influence women with cancer in one breast to have both breasts removed even if it doesn't improve their odds of survival, suggests a new study.

The lives of a further 20,000 mothers could be saved with higher rates of breastfeeding, due to the lower incidence of breast cancer in women who breastfed.

For women who choose to breastfeed there are lower risks associated with breast and ovarian cancer, less chance of hip fractures and osteoporosis in later life, and the added benefit that it helps with getting back to their pre-baby weight.

(1) Breast cancer and breastfeeding: collaborative reanalysis of individual date from 47 epidemiological studies in 30 countries, including 50,302 women with breast cancer and 96,973 women without the disease.

my mother passed away dec. 8, 2008 from pancreatic cancer... shortly after giving birth to wayana i moved back to be with my mother & nurse her through her next birth... 2008 - no doubt a year of infinity for me - it is all birth, death, rebirth, transitions & allowances... i get it & i owe it all to the vbac - nothing else in this experience could give me the knowledge, strength or grace than having this experience... natural birth is the only experience a female can have that can make her a woman... natural birth of anything!

In fact, a study published by The Archives of Internal Medicine found that for women with an immediate family member who had breast cancer, those who breastfeed have a 59 % lower risk of developing breast cancer.

Given questions about how long the vaccine is effective for, she questioned the efficacy of giving shots to girls as young as 11 years old in parts of the world (such as the U.S.) where women regularly undergo safety Pap screening repeatedly over their lifetimes, saying that the chances of their contracting cervical cancer may be less than the «small» risks associated with the vaccine.

The reality is not «gentle proteins», cute pink hearts or «probiotics just like those in breastmilk» but dirty contaminated bottles, diarrhea, babies screaming with pain from otitis media, babies separated from their mothers in pediatric wards with acute respiratory disease, damaged guts that morph into chronic lifelong conditions such as Crohn's disease, more women dying of breast cancer, the cost and pain of living a life with diabetes and lives cut short because of cardiac disease and so on.

RESULTS: If observed associations between breastfeeding duration and maternal health are causal, we estimate that current breastfeeding rates result in 4,981 excess cases of breast cancer, 53,847 cases of hypertension, and 13,946 cases of myocardial infarction compared with a cohort of 1.88 million U.S. women who optimally breastfed.

We estimated the variability of differences in the population prevalence of maternal cancers, type 2 diabetes mellitus, hypertension, MI, and premature mortality when women breastfed at current compared with optimal rates and the proportion of current disease burden that this change would reflect.

Recent research demonstrates that lactating women have an earlier return to prepregnant weight, 41 delayed resumption of ovulation with increased child spacing,42 - 44 improved bone remineralization postpartum45 with reduction in hip fractures in the postmenopausal period, 46 and reduced risk of ovarian cancer47 and premenopausal breast cancer.48

The scientists were interested in understanding what factors influenced women to share test results, particularly with their children, who might also be affected by the cancer - conferring genes.

Breast cancer and breastfeeding: collaborative reanalysis of individual data from 47 epidemiological studies in 30 countries, including 50302 women with breast cancer and 96973 women without the disease.

In another meta - study (compiling data from 47 smaller studies) published in 2002, more than 50,000 women with breast cancer and nearly 97,000 women without the disease from 30 countries were studieIn another meta - study (compiling data from 47 smaller studies) published in 2002, more than 50,000 women with breast cancer and nearly 97,000 women without the disease from 30 countries were studiein 2002, more than 50,000 women with breast cancer and nearly 97,000 women without the disease from 30 countries were studied.

Breastfeeding Associated with Reduced Mortality in Women with Breast Cancer.

The researchers theorized that human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) that is often thought to be high in women with morning sickness may have protective effects against cancer.

Gadi, V. Fetal microchimerism in breast from women with and without breast cancer.

Part of my mission is to share information about ovarian cancer with women in order to help them understand the risk factors, symptoms and precautions to promote early detection and reduce ovarian cancer related deaths.

There are nearly 220,000 women diagnosed with breast cancer every year in the U.S. and approximately 40,000 die of it annually.

Unlike other forms of breast cancer, women with inflammatory breast cancer do not develop lumps in the breast.

About 41,000 women and 300 men are diagnosed with breast cancer every year, and in five per cent of cases the disease is caused by a hereditary mutation in the BRCA1 and BRCA2 breast cancer genes.