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Worldwide, women ages fifteen to forty - four are more likely to be maimed or die from male violence than from cancer, malaria, traffic accidents, and war combined.

Right now, women age 15 - 44 are more likely to be maimed or to die from male violence than from cancer, malaria, traffic accidents, and war combined.

James said that while there is a 99 percent survival rate if breast cancer is detected early, black women are 42 percent more likely to die from breast cancer than their white counterparts and Hispanic women have significantly higher rates of being diagnosed with advanced breast cancer than either white or black women.

When examining reproductive cancers, the authors noted that while patients with infertility were 44 percent more likely to die of breast cancer, infertility was not associated with an increased risk of ovarian cancer or death from ovarian or endometrial cancers.

Several markers for dying from prostate cancer exist, but whether these are markers for telling who is likely to die early from any cause, and how their performance compares, is unknown.

Researchers aware of this reality have now shown that transplanting gut bacteria from wild mice into «clean» lab mice has made those rodents less likely to die from the flu or develop cancer.

In the largest study of its kind, people who ate a daily handful of nuts were 20 percent less likely to die from any cause over a 30 - year period than were those who didn't consume nuts, say scientists from Dana - Farber Cancer Institute, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and the Harvard School of Public Health.

Women with the variant were at much higher risk for cancer, had more recurrences, were often hit with multiple cancers and were more likely to die from aggressive forms of these diseases.

Instead, researchers told the European Breast Cancer Conference that their findings suggest that extending screening programs to older women results in a large proportion of women being over-treated, and at risk from the harmful effects of such treatment, because these women were more likely to die from other causes than from any tumors detected in the early stages of growth.

When the researchers zoomed in on these patients» medical histories and looked at their BMI trajectories they found that obese participants were more likely not only to develop kidney cancer, but also to die from it.

Overall, most Asian subgroups were less likely to die from cancer than non-Hispanic white patients.

In 2011, the Harvard School of Public Health reported that in a 22 - year study of nearly 48,000 men, those drinking six or more cups daily were about 60 percent less likely to die from prostate cancer.

Over 90 percent of prostate cancers are detected at a curable stage, with men more likely to die of other diseases than from this cancer.

Men who had smoked were nearly twice as likely to die from cancer, especially lung cancer, but there was also an elevated risk of death from cancers of the head and neck, esophagus, stomach, colorectum, liver, pancreas and bladder — all diseases that have been linked to smoking in previous studies, according to the authors.

When it comes to two of the genes on the panel, BRCA1 and BRCA2, there's little doubt that in cancer - prone families, testing saves lives: Extensive study of BRCA carriers has found that those who have their ovaries removed are 80 % less likely to die from ovarian cancer and 50 % less likely to die from breast cancer.

The skinny on fat: Too little is more dangerous than too much Overweight people are at no greater risk than normal - weight folks of dying from heart disease or cancer and are actually less likely to fall prey to some other causes of death, such as accidents and Alzheimer's, according to freshly analyzed data on 2.3 million adults 25 years and older as of 2004.

Black women are less likely than whites to get breast cancer, for example, but much more likely to die from it (Science, 2 February 2007).

November 15, 2006 Risk after colon cancer higher for very fat and very thin Even after successful treatment for colon cancer, the very obese are about one - third more likely to have their cancer recur and to die prematurely from cancer than those of normal weight, researchers from the University of Chicago and the University of Pittsburgh report in the November 15, 2006, issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Instcancer higher for very fat and very thin Even after successful treatment for colon cancer, the very obese are about one - third more likely to have their cancer recur and to die prematurely from cancer than those of normal weight, researchers from the University of Chicago and the University of Pittsburgh report in the November 15, 2006, issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Instcancer, the very obese are about one - third more likely to have their cancer recur and to die prematurely from cancer than those of normal weight, researchers from the University of Chicago and the University of Pittsburgh report in the November 15, 2006, issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Instcancer recur and to die prematurely from cancer than those of normal weight, researchers from the University of Chicago and the University of Pittsburgh report in the November 15, 2006, issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Instcancer than those of normal weight, researchers from the University of Chicago and the University of Pittsburgh report in the November 15, 2006, issue of the Journal of the National Cancer InstCancer Institute.

During that time, those younger than 65 who got less than 10 percent of their calories from protein were less likely to die from cancer or diabetes than were people who ate more protein.

Black men overall are more likely to have prostate cancer and nearly 2.5 times more likely to die from it than white males, according to the Prostate Cancer Foundcancer and nearly 2.5 times more likely to die from it than white males, according to the Prostate Cancer FoundCancer Foundation.

African Americans develop breast cancer less frequently than whites, but are more likely to die from it.

New research points to a clue on why black men are twice as likely to die from prostate cancer than white men.

The decision about stopping screening for women with a shorter life expectancy is a recognition of the unnecessary emotional and physical toll interventions may have on someone who may be more likely to die with a breast cancer tumor than from it.

But inequities between sub-populations in San Francisco were dramatic when expressed as rates, particularly for the African - American community where men have a 63 percent higher incidence and are more than twice as likely to die from prostate cancer as white men, the authors reported.

Aspirin has been shown to reduce the risk of colorectal cancer and precancerous polyps, and in a pair of studies published earlier this year, researchers found that people were less likely to develop or die from cancers — including those of the lung, prostate, and bladder — if they took aspirin daily.

A large American Cancer Society study found that men with prostate cancer who exercised the most were 30 percent less likely to die from the disease than those who exercised the Cancer Society study found that men with prostate cancer who exercised the most were 30 percent less likely to die from the disease than those who exercised the cancer who exercised the most were 30 percent less likely to die from the disease than those who exercised the least.

Although the odds of getting certain cancers can be higher in certain populations — for example, those who smoke are approximately 20 times more likely to develop lung cancer as those who don't smoke — the ACS estimates that the average woman has a one in three chance of developing cancer and a one in five chance of dying from cancer.

Black men are more likely than men of other races and ethnicities to be diagnosed with prostate cancer and die from the disease, Kutikov said.

The researchers found that, compared to non-vegetarians, vegetarians (including vegans and lacto - ovo vegetarians) were much less likely to get colon cancer or prostate cancer, or to die from cardiovascular disease or breast cancer.

A 7 - year study found that stage III colon cancer survivors who ate at least 2 ounces of tree nuts per week were 42 % less likely to have their cancer return and 57 % less likely to die from their cancer than those who did not eat nuts.

That study that purported to show that diets high in meat, eggs, and dairy could be as harmful to health as smoking supposedly suggested that people under 65 who eat lots of meat, eggs, and dairy are four times as likely to die from cancer or diabetes.

THE NUMBERS DO N'T LIE: They are 8 times LESS likely to die from coronary heart disease, 7 times LESS likely to die from prostate cancer, 6.5 times LESS likely to die from breast cancer, and 2.5 times LESS likely to die from colon cancer than an average American of the same age.

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Those with diabetes who do develop cancer and take metformin, are less likely to die from it.

They found that women who ate just one portion of full - fat dairy products a day were 50 % more likely to die from breast cancer in the next 12 years.

The first hint that metformin might also have anticancer properties came a decade later, when two research teams separately reported that diabetes patients were less likely to develop cancer, and less likely to die from the disease, if they were taking the drug.

In studies such as Li's that have looked at cancer outcomes in diabetes patients, for instance, doctors may be prescribing metformin — rather than insulin or other diabetes drugs — only to their healthier patients, who may be less likely to develop or die from cancer anyway.

But a far more likely fit is Driver's pal, Doc, a washed up physician turned drug - dealer who takes a break from dying of cancer to patch up a bullet hole or two.

Dogs who had been sterilized were more likely to die from cancer or autoimmune diseases, whereas those who still had their reproductive systems at death were more likely to die from infectious disease and trauma.

Our fur families are more likely to die from cancer than anything else.

Hispanic (Latino) Americans are less likely than non-Hispanic whites to develop and die from all cancers combined as well as the four most common cancers (female breast, prostate, colorectal, and lung) according to a new report.

Despite lower smoking rates, African - Americans are more likely to develop and die from lung cancer than whites.

But an company likely will investigate a claim if the insured dies of a health - related cause — such as a «non-smoker» who dies from lung cancer.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women are 2.5 times more likely to be diagnosed with, and 3.8 times more likely to die from cervical cancer.

They are also 1.8 times more likely to be diagnosed with, and 2.2 times more likely to die from endometrial cancer.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people diagnosed with cancer are 30 per cent more likely to die from their cancer than non-Indigenous Australians with cancer.

Black women are 71 percent more likely to die from cervical cancer and 243 percent more likely to die from pregnancy - or childbirth - related causes than White women.