Sentences with phrase «increasing cancer burden»

Our cancer outcomes still lag behind the best performing countries, and at a time when we have an NHS in transition and a difficult financial climate, we also face an increasing cancer burden and an ageing population.

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Breastfeeding is also associated with maternal health outcomes.5 Shorter duration of lactation is associated with increased maternal breast cancer, 6 ovarian cancer, 7,8 hypertension, 9 — 11 type 2 diabetes mellitus, 9,12 and myocardial infarction (MI).9, 13 We estimate the burden of maternal disease that might be averted if more mothers were able to adhere to infant feeding recommendations, assuming a causal association between breastfeeding and maternal health.
Basal cell carcinoma is one of the most common cancers and its incidence is increasing worldwide, putting a significant burden on health services.
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.
«Cancer constitutes an enormous burden to society, and both cancer and heart failure are well - known causes of increased mortality,» said Veronique Roger, M.D., senior author of the study and director of the Mayo Clinic Robert D. and Patricia E. Kern Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery in Rochester, MinnCancer constitutes an enormous burden to society, and both cancer and heart failure are well - known causes of increased mortality,» said Veronique Roger, M.D., senior author of the study and director of the Mayo Clinic Robert D. and Patricia E. Kern Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery in Rochester, Minncancer and heart failure are well - known causes of increased mortality,» said Veronique Roger, M.D., senior author of the study and director of the Mayo Clinic Robert D. and Patricia E. Kern Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery in Rochester, Minnesota.
«We are missing opportunities to diagnose these cancers early enough and it's increasing the treatment burden and mortality for women.
The intent of our research into metastatic breast cancer is to improve the treatments available to patients with this disease, to increase their chance of long - term survival and, ultimately, to reduce the burden of metastatic disease by preventing its occurrence.
As a result, these two factors were linked and for a while we were burdened with an incorrect assumption: that coffee consumption increases the risk of cancer.
Farm workers have higher rates of many cancers, and increasing numbers of studies are starting to link a higher body burden of pesticides (from all sources) with Parkinson's disease.
Moreover, is it fair for shelters to burden adoptive families with the increased risk of cancer and joint disease?
Poor air quality increases respiratory ailments like asthma and bronchitis, heightens the risk of life - threatening conditions like cancer, and burdens our health care system with substantial medical costs.
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.
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