Sentences with phrase «lung cancer cases»

Together, these types account for the vast majority of lung cancer cases.

Smoking is the most significant risk factor for lung cancer and causes an estimated 90 percent of lung cancer cases in the United States.

Researchers at the Menzies Centre for Population Health Research in Hobart have found that in Tasmania between 1983 and 1992, there were almost twice as many lung cancer cases among women aged between 25 and 44 years as in men of the same age.

«Joint Defense Approaches to Defending Lung Cancer Claims,» panelist, A Practical Guide for Winning Lung Cancer Cases at Trial, The Defense Asbestos Litigation Seminar CLE Program June 2014.

NSCLC represents approximately 85 percent of lung cancer cases.

The drug erlotinib is prescribed to between 10 — 30 per cent of patients with non-small cell lung cancer, which accounts for 85 per cent of all lung cancer cases.

While air pollution is to blame for around 3,600 lung cancer cases a year (1 % of all cancer cases), it still causes far fewer cases of lung cancer than tobacco.

(The K - Ras gene is mutated in 20 percent of lung cancer cases, and G12C is the most frequent mutation of K - Ras.)

In addition to different cancers being able to manipulate these anchors, it was also known that about a fifth of lung cancer cases are missing an anti-cancer gene called LKB1 (also known as STK11).

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer - related deaths in the world, and non-small cell lung cancer accounts for > 75 % of all lung cancer cases.

History: In 1998, the IASLC established its Lung Cancer Staging Project, an effort to collect a significant, international database of lung cancer cases and their anatomical classifications.

This type accounts for as much as 80 percent of all lung cancer cases.

And, around 14 percent of all lung cancer cases are small cell lung cancer (SCLC).

A cancer - causing virus in sheep may shed light on a disease whose incidence is increasing and accounts for about 25 percent of all lung cancer cases.

The drug erlotinib is prescribed to between 10 - 30 per cent of patients with non-small cell lung cancer, which accounts for 85 per cent of all lung cancer cases.

Nonsmall cell lung cancers are the most common types of lung cancer, accounting for approximately 80 to 85 percent of lung cancer cases.

Small - cell lung cancer, or SCLC, is one of the 2 major types of lung cancer and accounts for 10 % to 15 % of all lung cancer cases.

Non-small cell lung cancer accounts for around 85 per cent of all lung cancer cases.

Non-small cell lung cancer, or NSCLC, is the most common type of lung cancer, accounting for approximately 90 % of all lung cancer cases.

Indeed, it is estimated that occupational asbestos exposure has led to 5 - 7 % of the lung cancer cases in the United States.

«Alternative Causation Defenses in Lung Cancer Cases,» Perrin Conferences CLE Program, Asbestos Defense Strategic Summit, November, 2014.