Sentences with phrase «lower lung cancer rates»

Higher levels of green tea consumption in Asia are thought to be responsible for lower lung cancer rates, despite higher smoking rates.

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Because of lung cancer's reputation as a self - induced illness and its low survival rate, it rarely attracts big research money.

«However, despite the relatively lower rates of women dying from lung cancer in other EU countries, the trends are less favourable in some countries, particularly in France and Spain.»

Risk assessments estimate that lowering occupational exposure limits from the current to the proposed standard will reduce silicosis and lung cancer mortality to approximately one - half of the rates predicted under the current standard.

While lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death and the second most commonly diagnosed cancer in both men and women, a low survival rate makes it the number eight cancer site represented among survivors.

In the last two decades lung cancer therapy has improved, but the overall 5 - year survival rate is still quite low at 17 %.

A higher rate of lung cancer among men who had had vasectomies more than 20 years earlier was offset by a lower rate of cardiovascular disease.

Survival rates for all types of lung cancer are still low.

In 2010, CRI researchers Drew Pardoll, M.D., Ph.D., Susan Topalian, M.D., and colleagues completed a phase I study showing that a PD -1-specific monoclonal antibody induces frequent tumor regressions in patients with advanced melanoma, renal cancer, lung cancer, and colon cancer with very low rates of toxicity.

Low dose CT scans catch enough early - stage cancers to reduce lung cancer by 20 %, but our team aims to further improve detection rates through more robust screening methods.

Japanese researchers, for example, found that people who lived closer to or near forests had significantly lower rates of lung, breast, uterine, prostate, kidney, and colon cancers.

«Our analysis reveals a markedly low and inadequate rate of lung cancer screening for both 2016 and 2017,» said study author Dr. Danh Pham.

The team found that increased boron intake could cut lung cancer risk in half, when compared to rates in women with low boron intake and no HRT.

Extensive studies have shown that increased consumption of cruciferous vegetables is strongly associated with lower rates of lung, bladder, breast and prostate cancer.

Perhaps that's why India has among the lowest rates of lung, colon, prostate & breast cancer,

Unfortunately, the average survival rate for lung cancer is lower than many other types of cancer.

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