Sentences with phrase «known cancer risks»

Reducing known cancer risks in your pet's environment is another step in preventing cancer for your pet.

By invalidating key parts of Myriad's patents, the court has removed a bar that prevented labs using new technology from developing and selling broader one - time tests that search for all known cancer risks, including the BRCA genes, geneticists said.

Not exact matches

The state suggests residents also limit their consumption of grilled foods, since we know those cooking processes can contribute to cancer risk, too.

Scientists have known for years that the more alcohol you drink, the higher your risk may be of developing cancers like throat, liver, breast, and colon.

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).

She chose that step because she had been tested and knew she possessed those gene mutations, which put her risk of developing breast cancer at greater than 80 %.

«Many people are deficient and don't even know it — and not getting enough may increase the risk of osteoporosis, heart disease and certain types of cancer,» she warns.

According to the University of Maryland Medical Center polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs)-- also known as omega - 3 fatty acids — play a crucial role in human brain function, as well as normal growth and development, with research showing that they can also reduce inflammation in addition to helping lower the risk of chronic diseases such as heart disease, cancer, and arthritis.

Omega 3s are also know to improve cognitive function, improve mood, offer joint protection, promote eye health, and a decreased risk in certain types of cancer.

Cauliflower is known to reduce the risk of cancer, boost cardiovascular health, fight inflammation, improve brain health, support digestion, aid in weight loss, balance hormones, and build stronger bones.

Because oxidative stress is known to play a role in the development of some cancers, and pumpkin seeds are unique in their composition of antioxidant nutrients, it's not surprising to find some preliminary evidence of decreased cancer risk in association with pumpkin seed intake.

We know that exercise can reduce the risk of heart disease, certain cancers, dementia, and other diseases of aging.

Here's something most of them don't know: They're also lowering their own risk for breast cancer, according to experts at the American Institute for Cancer Research (cancer, according to experts at the American Institute for Cancer Research (Cancer Research (AICR).

Sun exposure of mother and baby can help, but is not recommended because it is too difficult to know how much is needed without risking skin cancer.

So it reduces the risk of Breast Cancer again, you know, developing for as much as....

Each month you give your baby formula increases the risks of diabetes, breast cancer, being overweight (at least what scientists have proven so far, god knows what else we simply don'tknow)

We don't know if pumping breast milk offers moms the same benefits of breastfeeding, such as increased postpartum weight loss, and reduced risk of postpartum depression, multiple reproductive cancers, rheumatoid arthritis, osteoporosis, Type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and high blood pressure.

Many new mothers are making choices about infant feeding without knowing breastfeeding can help reduce cancer risks for both themselves and their children.

In fact, some doctors are recommending their patients eat a square of dark chocolate every day to lower blood pressure and is an excellent source of antioxidants which are known to reduce cancer risk.

Moreover, exposure to plastics is known to have an effect on early puberty in girls and we all know about the risk of cancer.

Many women who develop breast cancer have no known risk factors other than simply being women.

The most well - known are breast cancer gene 1 (BRCA1) and breast cancer gene 2 (BRCA2), both of which significantly increase the risk of both breast and ovarian cancer.

No one knows for sure why breastfeeding reduces risk of breast cancer.

You can reduce your risk of breast cancer by breastfeeding, no matter -LSB-...]

Next question: Moms who breastfeed have lower risk of: (and we have some choices here) a. breast - cancer b. osteoporoses c. uterine and ovarian cancer d. all of the above ALICIA: D. GRAEME SEABROOK: You know, I am going to say «D» because I want it to be true.

Many of the known risk factors of cancer — all cancers — are the same: smoking or any use of tobacco or nicotine products; exposure to radiation; infection; sunlight; genetic factors; hormones; and aging.

Of course, it's really nice to know that breast milk can reduce her risks of breast cancer and reduce my risk of pre-menopausal breast cancer, too.»

Being a Cancer Researcher, I know that the easiest thing to do to decrease the risk of various cancers is simply to breastfeed.

Smokers know that they stand a higher chance of developing lung cancer if they smoke, but to some of them, the cost of quitting is greater than the reduction in risk they'll have.

We know from the volume of calls that we receive to our helpline that women are keen to understand the contribution their lifestyle can make to their own risk of developing breast cancer.

«Our helpline regularly hears from women who are concerned about the risk of their breast cancer returning after treatment, so we know that this research will be of great interest to women, and men, diagnosed with breast cancer.

«It's important for women to know their risk for cervical cancer and talk with their health care provider about how it can be prevented,» said Phyllis Ellis, Director of the Oneida County Health Department.

Think about what's happening here in Manchester, projects to rebuild 10,000 homes in run - down areas axed, # 560m of transport schemes scrapped, sweeping cuts at Bolton, Salford, Trafford and Rochdale councils, 150 firefighter jobs at risk in Greater Manchester Fire Service, # 7m of cuts in the police force, up to 1,000 NHS admin jobs in danger and a local breast cancer helpline, that has taken 80,000 calls since it was set up, about to be closed, because health trusts will no longer foot the # 63,000 annual running cost,» he said.

Epstein - Barr is best known for causing infectious mononucleosis, but it is also associated with an increased risk for several cancers, as well as a rare type of head and neck cancer called nasopharyngeal carcinoma.

It could be that the bacteria reduce the amount of acid in the stomach, which curbs acid reflux, a known risk factor of throat cancer.

Earlier studies have shown sexual minority males have one of the highest known prevalence rates of skin cancer, with up to twice the risk of heterosexual males.

By excluding these women, who are no longer at risk of developing this cancer, from their analysis, the researchers calculated a rate of 18.6 cases of cervical cancer per 100,000 women.

But a major study by a Danish team, to be published this Saturday in The Lancet should help allay those fears: It found the risk of death among more than 5000 breast cancer survivors was no greater for those women who became pregnant.

The statement is an overview of what we currently know about risk factors common to both heart disease and breast cancer, the potential heart damage from some breast cancer treatments, and suggested strategies to prevent or minimize the damage.

Meanwhile, widely used medications known as proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) also reduce gastric acid secretion, but they do not increase cancer risk.

«Knowing these cells are leading to increased cancer risk may allow us to find drugs to keep mature cells from starting to divide and multiply,» Mills said.

Although researchers do not yet know the biological significance of these discoveries, they say that fully cataloguing the genome may help them understand how genetic variations affect the risk of contracting diseases such as cancer as well as how humans grow from a single - celled embryo into an adult.

The clinic monitors people who are already at high risk of pancreatic cancer due to family history or having known risk - raising genetic mutations.

«It has long been known that inflammation within the colon increases the risk of developing colon cancer,» says Chung.

Among the changes in the American Cancer Society's updated breast cancer screening guideline is that women with an average risk of breast cancer should undergo regular, annual screening mammography beginning at age 45 years, with women having an opportunity to choose to begin annual screening as early as age 40; women 55 years and older should transition to screening every other year (vs annual), but still have the opportunity to continue with annual screening; and routine screening clinical breast examination is no longer recommended, according to an article in the October 20 issue ofCancer Society's updated breast cancer screening guideline is that women with an average risk of breast cancer should undergo regular, annual screening mammography beginning at age 45 years, with women having an opportunity to choose to begin annual screening as early as age 40; women 55 years and older should transition to screening every other year (vs annual), but still have the opportunity to continue with annual screening; and routine screening clinical breast examination is no longer recommended, according to an article in the October 20 issue ofcancer screening guideline is that women with an average risk of breast cancer should undergo regular, annual screening mammography beginning at age 45 years, with women having an opportunity to choose to begin annual screening as early as age 40; women 55 years and older should transition to screening every other year (vs annual), but still have the opportunity to continue with annual screening; and routine screening clinical breast examination is no longer recommended, according to an article in the October 20 issue ofcancer should undergo regular, annual screening mammography beginning at age 45 years, with women having an opportunity to choose to begin annual screening as early as age 40; women 55 years and older should transition to screening every other year (vs annual), but still have the opportunity to continue with annual screening; and routine screening clinical breast examination is no longer recommended, according to an article in the October 20 issue of JAMA.

But it assesses only three of the more than 1,000 known BRCA1 / 2 mutations, raising concerns that women who are told they do not have any of those variants will be lulled into believing that, as a result, they do not have an elevated risk for breast and ovarian cancer.

But this doesn't totally come out of the blue for us, because we have seen a somewhat similar relationship for acne, which we had looked at because we knew that, what we had seen in our data was that a high - fat dairy products were related to high risk of breast cancer and during the premenopausal years.

One of my nightmares is that a woman learns that she doesn't have the high - risk form of the gene for breast cancer susceptibility, so she decides she no longer needs to get mammograms.

Inherited mutations of the tumour suppressor gene CDKN2A are the strongest known risk factors for familial melanoma and mutations in this gene also increase the risk of other cancers.

Obesity is a known risk factor for many cancers including colon cancer, yet the reasons behind the colon cancer link have often remained unclear.