Sentences with phrase «increased numbers of cancer»

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.

Experts say the dose from the backscatter is negligible when compared with naturally occurring background radiation, but a linear model shows even such trivial amounts increase the number of cancer cases

With the entire world watching the recent Fukushima events and the rising of radiation levels, reported mutations and increasing numbers of cancer patients (Kudo himself died of cancer) his oeuvre can be regarded as a valid political statement of contemporary culture on a global scale.

With increasing number of cancer - related detections, India must address low awareness and misconceptions surrounding cancer as they are leading to late detection of cancer.

Not exact matches

(Smoking substantially increases a person's risk of getting a number of cancers, heart and lung diseases, and other ailments.)

At last year's Brainstorm Health conference in San Diego, Bergh found himself sitting at dinner with Othman Laraki, the cofounder and CEO of Color Genomics — a company that extracts the DNA from a customer's submitted saliva sample and then looks for a set number of gene mutations known to be associated with increased risk for developing certain hereditary cancers or heart conditions (depending on the test).

We can think of the problem of cancer or of poliomyelitis, of the increasing number of people who are mentally sick, of the thousands of broken homes, of the juvenile delinquent, and of the special problems of the blind, the deaf, the dumb, the spastic and the mentally defective.

Two of them also examined the effect of multiple abortions, and both of these found the risk of breast cancer to increase with the number of induced abortions.

Eating processed meats increases the risk of colorectal cancer, according to a large number of studies, including the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) cancer, according to a large number of studies, including the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) study.

The coalition has been awarded three grants over the past five years: Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment Cancer, Cardiovascular Disease and Pulmonary Disease Grant with the goal of increasing the number of policies and practices that promote and support breastfeeding - friendly environments; Business Case for Breastfeeding Grant to educate employers on how to comply with the Workplace Accommodations for Nursing Mothers Act and a Women Infants and Children (WIC) Local Agency Breastfeeding Special Project Grant.

There are a number of risks associated with the use of infant formula which include reduced cognitive development and increased risk of allergies and asthma, SIDS, acute respiratory infection, obesity, and childhood cancers, to name a few.

Breast cancer survival rates have increased, and the number of deaths associated with this disease is steadily declining, largely due to factors such as earlier detection, a new personalized approach to treatment and a better understanding of the disease.

New analysis shows the number of diesel cars on London's roads has increased by over 170,000 since 2012, despite serious public health warnings about the risks of cancer and air pollution.

«It increases the number of HPV16 genomes studied by an order of magnitude and is the first large study to evaluate variation occurring throughout the HPV16 genome at the isolate level linked to cancer development.»

According to researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and Boston Medical Center (BMC) while the merits of screening tests and screening intervals warrant further discussion, they firmly believe that increasing the number of women who participate in cancer screenings and ensuring that women are not lost to follow - up with lengthened screening intervals is more important than the choice of test to decrease rates of cervical cancer.

«The increased number of exosomes reaching the pancreas may gain further advantage to enter KRAS - associated cancer cells as a result of enhanced macropinocytosis, which concurs with previous findings,» said Kamerkar.

They found that breast cancer incidence rose 25 percent from the early 1980s to the early 1990s — a period when an increasing number of women were getting mammograms and also undergoing hormone therapy to control menopause symptoms and prevent chronic disease.

Considering the thousands of people diagnosed with these cancers annually, a 1 % increase in early - stage diagnosis could add up to a significant number of new cases and potentially lead to better outcomes.

Among patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) fueled by ALK gene alterations who were being treated with crizotinib (Xalkori), a decrease in the number of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) harboring increased copies of the ALK gene over the first two months of treatment was associated with increased progression - free survival.

«We're seeing that this cancer is likely very underreported, and as more information on this type of cancer comes to light, the number of cases is likely to increase in the coming years,» said Dino Ravnic, assistant professor of surgery, Penn State College of Medicine.

«The increased risk is such that if Canada was to switch over to a system of private, for - profit hospitals, we would expect an additional 2200 Canadians to die each year,» says the cardiologist, adding that this number is comparable to that of Canadians dying each year in motor vehicle accidents or from colorectal cancer.

She notices, too, that increasing numbers of graduate students show a specific interest in cancer research.

Loss of either GSTO1 or RYR1, the researchers report, decreased the number of cancer stem cells in the primary tumor, blocked metastasis of cancer cells from the primary tumor to the lungs, decreased the duration of chemotherapy required to induce remission and increased the duration of time after chemotherapy was stopped that the mice remained tumor - free.

When the researchers manipulated the cell's genetics to increase levels of ALKBH5 without exposing them to low oxygen, they found this also decreased methylation of NANOG mRNA and increased the numbers of breast cancer stem cells.

The absolute risk this poses may be low — a chest X-ray only increases the risk of a fatal cancer by 1 in 200,000 — but it must be balanced against the large number of flights, and whether the risk is avoidable.

The study shows that in mice on the Westernized diet both the number of cancer nodules and the size of the cancer nodules increased in the liver.

Because it is so deadly and because the number of new cases is increasing, it is predicted to be the second leading cause of cancer deaths in the western world by 2020, trailing only lung cancer, he adds.

«As these drugs are considerably cheaper than current therapies, they can improve treatment in the developing world where the number of deaths from cancer is predicted to increase significantly over the next ten years,» said Dr Federica Sotgia, another leader of the study.

Obesity puts a large burden on the health care system and increases an individual's risk for a number of diseases including diabetes, cardiovascular disease and cancer.

The number of cancer survivors is projected to increase by 31 percent, to 20.3 million, by 2026.

«The findings suggest that policies such as the Affordable Care Act that increase the number of people in America with health coverage will result in fewer late - stage cancer diagnoses and save lives.»

When mice bearing pancreatic tumors were injected with an antibody that prevents galectin - 9 from docking into dectin - 1, they developed M1 macrophages, which sent signals that dramatically increased the number of T cells capable of attacking the cancer cells.

Because p53 is often mutated or lost in cancer cells, a number of compounds have been designed to increase its levels as a possible anti-cancer treatment.

The temperature also increased with the number of years a person had smoked and the stage at which their lung cancer had developed.

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.

Both the number and activity of osteoblasts — cells that produce and reshape bone tissue — were increased within the bone marrow of mice with lung tumors compared with cancer - free animals; and reducing the number of osteoblasts in mice not only limited neutrophil infiltration of tumors but also interrupted tumor progression.

Moscow's air is heavily polluted and the city's hospitals have had to deal with an increasing number of cases of chronic bronchitis, asthma and lung cancer.

Oral mystery Despite HPV's role in increasing the number of oropharyngeal cancers, it seems to produce tumors that are much easier to treat than HPV - negative malignancies.

Other recent studies have recognized HCV's increased association with additional cancers, says Torres, but there was no known association with a significant number of head and neck cancers.

When Torres started the clinic, he expected to see a number of patients with liver cancers and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, as these have documented associations with HCV of 48-fold and two - to three-fold increased risk, respectively.

Between 1992 and 2006, the number of treatment procedures for slow - growing nonmelanoma skin cancers increased by almost 77 %.

«Over 3 million people are diagnosed with cancer each year in Europe and it is likely that this number will increase by at least 65 % over the next 20 years,» said Nora Kearney, Professor of Cancer Care at the University of Surrey and Principal Investicancer each year in Europe and it is likely that this number will increase by at least 65 % over the next 20 years,» said Nora Kearney, Professor of Cancer Care at the University of Surrey and Principal InvestiCancer Care at the University of Surrey and Principal Investigator.

Since 1980, the incidence of hepatocellular carcinoma, the most common type of liver cancer, has nearly tripled, and obesity related liver disease is one of the driving forces behind the increasing number of cases.

When the two species were put into mice predisposed to get bowel cancer, the number of tumours that formed dramatically increased (Science, doi.org/cj4w).

«The benefits of early therapy are significant, since it increases the number of healthy life years for patients and decreases their chances of getting serious liver diseases, like liver failure and liver cancer,» said Harinder Chahal, PharmD, MSc, an assistant adjunct professor in the UCSF department of clinical pharmacy.

Older adults who died from cancer had the largest increase in the number of drugs.

Additionally, overexpression of POSTN in human mammary epithelial and breast cancer cells resulted in enhanced tumor growth and metastasis (Wang et al., 2013), which is similar to a colon cancer cell model where overexpression of POSTN resulted in an increase in the number and size of liver metastases (Bao et al., 2004).

The National Cancer Institute says the number of new cases of non-melanoma skin cancer appears to be increasing everyCancer Institute says the number of new cases of non-melanoma skin cancer appears to be increasing everycancer appears to be increasing every year.

Reuters reports that «the activity of disease - preventing genes increased while a number of disease - promoting genes, including those involved in prostate cancer and breast cancer, shut down, according to the study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.»