Sentences with phrase «known cause of cancer»

Asbestos is the best - known cause of cancer in the workplace.

Recently in the news it has been shown that BPA and phthalates, both found in plastic, mimics estrogen, leading to estrogen dominance — a well known cause of cancer.

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As Mary Mycio has pointed out in Slate, however, it's impossible to know how many incidents of cancer were directly caused by Chernobyl.

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-- A little - known not - for - profit group sued some 90 coffee retailers, including Starbucks, on grounds they were violating a California law requiring companies to warn consumers of chemicals in their products that could cause cancer.

According to the myth, «God» knows at the instant (and even before) that he created you what the cause of your demise would be - whether by stillborn birth, cancer, suicide, accident or old age.

Man had made enormous strides in discovering the causes of disease, and is still fighting a long - drawn - out battle against such things as the incredibly minute viruses, and the apparently arbitrary cell - degeneration known as cancer.

Surely, for a patient who can no longer assimilate food, N&H provides no benefit; similarly, some stomach cancer cases result in feeding the tumor instead of the patient; and there are those who are so fragile that almost any invasive insert causes more problems than it relieves.

Comparing the teaching of one of the best scrutinized and accepted (and best supported by evidence) scientific theories to selling a product known to cause cancer is actually quite funny.

Hormone changes due to induced abortion may indeed be related to breast cancer, but there are other known causes of hormone changes that we should worry about, including the widespread use of chemical contraceptives, fertility drugs that cause hormone surges, increased obesity and fat content in the diet that change the body's estrogen metabolism, and last but not least, chemical contaminants in the environment that mimic estrogen....

Watermelon helps prevent the formation of free radicals, known to cause cancer.

California's Proposition 65 requires the annual publication of a list of chemicals known to the state to cause cancer or reproductive toxicity, and information must be made available to consumers about products that may contain listed substances.

Now, I do not use nonstick because of the chemicals used in them that have been known to cause cancer.

These fragrances can not only be irritating to a baby's respiratory system, but many of them have been known to cause things like disrupted hormone activity as well as liver and breast cancers.

Tobacco smoke contains a number of known carcinogens — substances that cause cancer.

This family of chemicals, created when wood pulp is bleached with chlorine, is known to cause cancer in humans.

There are lots of chemicals that are known to cause asthma, liver problems, infertility and cancer.

There is tons of chemicals and medications frist deemed safe now know to cause cancer or other harmfull side efects.

All of these components are known to cause brain damage, kidney disease, mutations, and cancers.

If you don't live in America, than you will still be happy to know that since your Super Undies are made in America, you are certainly not supporting any third world sweat shops or unethical labor practices, and that the garment you are receiving has not come into contact with any harmful substances or dioxins that could cause their workers a wide range of illnesses including infertility and various cancers.

Because of its appeal to a variety of insects, conventional cotton gets treated with pesticides more than any other crop except coffee.The pesticides used, cyanide, dicofol, naled, propargite and trifluralin, are all known to cause cancer, and have been classified by the US Environmental Protection Agency as the most dangerous pesticides.

«A lot of these illnesses like cancers take 20 years to develop, but because they've done this medical monitoring, they now know exactly which cancers are caused by the toxins that were released at the 9/11 site,» Gillibrand said.

«Our study suggests that epigenetic changes to cells treated with cigarette smoke sensitize airway cells to genetic mutations known to cause lung cancers,» says Stephen Baylin, M.D., the Virginia and D.K. Ludwig Professor for Cancer Research and professor of oncology at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center.

Kaposi's sarcoma - associated herpes virus, or KSHV, is one of two viruses known to cause cancer in humans.

Dr. Peter Infante, a former director of the Office of Carcinogen Identification and Classification at the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, called the NAS critique «arrogant» because «we don't know the mode of action for most things that cause cancer.»

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.

The NAS finished reviewing the EPA assessment in April, sending back a long list of questions and advising the EPA not to finalize the document until it could show exactly how formaldehyde causes cancer, a biological mechanism known as the «mode of action.»

In 2006, a team led by Joseph DeRisi, a biochemist at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in San Francisco, examined prostate cancers for viruses and found that a few of the samples contained a new virus closely related to xenotropic murine leukaemia virus (XMRV), which is known to cause cancer in mice.

«We've long known that NF - kB promotes cancer development by subverting apoptosis, an internal safety mechanism that otherwise would cause cancer cells to self - destruct,» says principal investigator Denis Guttridge, PhD, professor of molecular virology, immunology and medical genetics and of molecular and cellular biochemistry.

The creatures were developed by scientists at the National University of Singapore as part of an ongoing attempt to make transgenic fish that light up when exposed to such chemical toxins as PCBs, which are known to cause cancer in humans.

For example, some cancer treatments, such as HER - 2 targeted therapies, can cause weakening of the heart muscle, a condition known as heart failure.

Also known as the «Guardian of the Genome,» p53 fights cancer by causing damaged cells to die or by halting the growth of mutant cells before they become cancerous and spread to the rest of the body.

«Further work is needed to define the role of bariatric surgery in cancer care and prevention, but we know that women with endometrial cancer are more likely to die of cardiovascular causes than they are of endometrial cancer.

«For this reason, we decided to combine vitamin C with a PARP inhibitor, a drug type known to cause cancer cell death by blocking the repair of DNA damage, and already approved for treating certain patients with ovarian cancer.»

Synthetic biocircuits made of DNA and encoded proteins could be inserted to detect and repair (or kill) cells with mutations known to cause cancer or aging.

Researchers used the new therapy to inhibit a pathway in the cancer cells known as mTOR signaling — putting the brakes on this pathway, combined with the current standard therapy, caused more of the cancer cells to die.

But the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)-- empowered by the federal Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) of 1974 (and amended in 1986 and 1996) to set national safety standards — has urged communities since 1996 to cut back on chlorine, which produces harmful by - products when added to water, including trihalomethanes and haloacetic acids, known cancer - causing agents.

The time needed for breast cancer metastases (secondary lesions caused by cells that have escaped from the original tumour) to develop varies between patients, and little is known about the mechanisms that govern latency (the dormant state of cells that have already spread through the body).

Pancreatic cancer, the fourth leading cause of cancer death in the United States, is often diagnosed at a late stage, when curative treatment is no longer possible.

In 2011 the National Toxicology Program at the Department of Health and Human Services declared formaldehyde a known human carcinogen, demonstrated by human and animal studies to cause cancer of the nose, head, neck and lymphatic system.

One of these, Helicobacter pylori, is a pathogen that can cause stomach ulcers in humans and is the strongest known risk factor for gastric 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.

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Researchers at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) and the Moores Cancer Center at the University of California, San Diego, have described for the first time the molecular mechanism of cancer development caused by well - known «resistance» mutations in the gene called epidermal growth factor receptor (Cancer Center at the University of California, San Diego, have described for the first time the molecular mechanism of cancer development caused by well - known «resistance» mutations in the gene called epidermal growth factor receptor (cancer development caused by well - known «resistance» mutations in the gene called epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR).

Herpes virus proteins are more «spaghetti - like» than previously thought, which provides a vital clue in the search for an efficient treatment against a type of herpes which causes a form of cancer known as Kaposi's sarcoma.

About 20 percent of breast cancer patients have overexpressed growth receptors, known as Her2 + receptors, on the cancer cells, which cause uncontrolled tumor growth.

Next, iCAGES cross-references these variants to databases of known cancer - causing genes, using statistical analyses and machine learning techniques to prioritize the most likely driver genes.

«We know the cause of skin cancer — too much ultraviolet light,» says James Spencer, vice-chair and director of dermatologic surgery at Mount Sinai School of Medicine.

Stress can cause changes in the function of the immune system, including reducing the number of natural killer cells that are known to battle cancer.

Aneuploidy is a condition in which cells contain an abnormal number of chromosomes, and is known to be the cause of many types of cancer and genetic disorders, including Down Syndrome.