Sentences with phrase «lung cancer deaths from»

Reducing ship sulphur emissions cuts these other global health related impacts, too, avoiding about one - third of the annual cardiovascular disease and lung cancer deaths from shipping air pollution.

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Disney died in 1966 from lung cancer, and his death was relatively sudden and unexpected.

Prior to her death, Dolly had been suffering from lung cancer and crippling arthritis.

Smoking causes about 9 out of 10 of all lung cancer deaths and 8 out of 10 deaths from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease («COPD») in men and women.

Since 1972, the proportion of deaths among women due to lung cancer has increased from 10 % to 22 % — a figure backed up by the latest results from Statistik Austria.

«In view of the fact that lung cancer has now overtaken breast cancer as the commonest cause of death from cancer among women, that is alarming.

For instance, among the six largest countries, although the actual numbers of female deaths from lung cancer will still be the highest in the UK in 2016 than in the other large countries (at 16,400), the rate per 100,000 women has started to fall (from 20.15 per 100,000 in 2013 to 19.37 predicted in 2016), while death rates are still rising in the other countries.

In women, death rates from breast and colorectal cancer will fall by 8 % and 7 % respectively, but lung and pancreatic cancer rates will rise by 5 % and 4 %; in 2016 the death rates from lung cancer in Europe will be 14.4 per 100,000 women (compared to 13.51 in 2011) and 5.6 per 100,000 for pancreatic cancer (compared to 5.39 in 2011).

In men, death rates from lung, colorectal and prostate cancer are predicted to fall by 11 %, 5 % and 8 % respectively since 2011.

The first, a cohort - analysis paper run by NIOSH, looked at all deaths among the miners, from lung cancer as well as other causes.

The study by researchers in Italy and Switzerland predicts that although the actual number of deaths from all cancers in the European Union will continue to rise due to growing populations and numbers of elderly people, the rate of cancer deaths will continue to decline overall, with some notable exceptions: lung cancer in women and pancreatic cancer in both sexes.

In women, the predicted age standardised rate of deaths from lung cancer will increase by 9 % from 2009 to 14.24 per 100,000 of the population, while the death rates from breast cancer are predicted to be 14.22 per 100,000, which represents a fall of 10.2 % since 2009.

It all adds up to fewer deaths from things like lung cancer, liver disease, heart attacks and car crashes.

Additionally, shipping pollution is estimated to contribute to 400,000 premature deaths from lung cancer and cardiovascular disease annually.

Crucially, our methods depend on the assumption that records of deaths from lung cancer are equally reliable in all subpopulations.

We then used death from lung cancer to extrapolate death from all smoking - related conditions.

We used death from lung cancer as a marker for smoking - related death because lung cancer is the condition most strongly tied to smoking.

«However, unlike smoking, which substantially increases the likelihood of premature death (for example, mortality from lung cancer), obesity and associated Type 2 diabetes primarily lead to long - term disability, so that from a lifetime perspective, obesity could tax the health care system even more than smoking.»

Death rates from lung cancer in women also outstripped those in men — 4.3 deaths per 100 000 in females and 2.4 per 100 000 in males.

«Almost half the deaths from cancers result from lung and breast cancer, both of which are solid tumors.

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.

This improvement corresponded to a 3.5 % annual decrease in the risk of death from lung cancer.

For example, in the United States in 2005, it was estimated that environmental smoke exposure caused 3,000 deaths from lung cancer and 46,000 deaths from coronary artery disease.

Researchers have found that treating patients who have early stage non-small cell lung cancer with a type of radiotherapy called stereotactic body radiation therapy is associated with a small but increased risk of death from causes other than cancer.

Dr. Jim Dudl is the father of Eric Dudl, a postdoctoral researcher who worked at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute up to four days before his death from lung cancer.

Life tables were used to model five year survival for early stage non-small cell lung cancer and limited stage small cell lung cancer, using death rates for continuing smokers and quitters obtained from this review.

The National Cancer Institute reports that this year, there are expected 221,200 new cases and 158,040 deaths from lung cancer in the coCancer Institute reports that this year, there are expected 221,200 new cases and 158,040 deaths from lung cancer in the cocancer in the country.

Not only is smoking the leading cause of lung cancer — about 80 % to 90 % of deaths from this disease are linked to smoking, according to the American Lung Association — but it's also linked to cancers of the lung, esophagus, larynx, mouth, throat, kidney, liver, pancreas, stomach, and mlung cancer — about 80 % to 90 % of deaths from this disease are linked to smoking, according to the American Lung Association — but it's also linked to cancers of the lung, esophagus, larynx, mouth, throat, kidney, liver, pancreas, stomach, and mLung Association — but it's also linked to cancers of the lung, esophagus, larynx, mouth, throat, kidney, liver, pancreas, stomach, and mlung, esophagus, larynx, mouth, throat, kidney, liver, pancreas, stomach, and more.

Scientists estimate deaths from lung cancer could be reduced by two to four percent, or about 5,000 deaths, by lowering radon levels in homes exceeding the EPA's action level.

The film also featured Meryl Streep, in only her second big - screen role, and Streep's then - fiancé, John Cazale, in his final screen performance before his death from lung cancer in 1978.

Kaufman starred on «Saturday Night Live» and Taxi in the late 70s and early 80s, prior to his untimely death from lung cancer at age 35.

One had better, for they contributed to his death from lung cancer in 1962, at age fifty.

Shortly before his death from lung cancer in 2005, Loving created a stained - glass work for the MTA.

During this period, she finally gave up drinking, but her smoking habit endured and was the cause of her death from lung cancer.

Death by lung cancer so often does have linkage to smoking but it is conceptual twaddle to say that a broken nose from another's fist is in some way different because it doesn't have linkages to some prior behaviour / events.

In China's rapidly growing cities, like Shanghai and Beijing, where particulates in the air are often four times higher than in New York City, nearly 30 percent of cancer deaths are from lung cancer.

Oil refineries, coal plants, cement kilns and other heavy industries have for years fouled the air with toxic pollution, leaving residents who live nearby with a difficult choice: stay inside or venture out and risk becoming sick from breathing air that's full of pollutants that can cause lung and heart disease, cancer, brain damage — and even death.

This will reduce SO2 emissions — which cause premature deaths from diseases such as lung cancer and heart disease — from shipping by 85 % compared with today's levels.»

Air pollution was positively associated with death from lung cancer and cardiopulmonary disease but not with death from other causes considered together.

I suspect that many of the lung cancer deaths of the past half century are attributable to fallout from the 900 or so atmospheric nuke weapons tests the US endured.

Just as it would be «unproductive» to attribute the death of an individual life - long tobacco smoker from lung cancer to their tobacco smoking, since after all, some people smoke tobacco all their lives and don't get cancer, while others die of lung cancer who have never smoked tobacco.

Further highlighting the urgency of the issue in China, new research from Tsinghua University found that an estimated 670,000 premature deaths from four diseases - strokes, lung cancer, coronary heart disease and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease - were linked to air pollution, especially particulate matter with a diameter of 2.5 micrometres or less (a.k.a. PM 2.5).

Dr. Aubrey Miller was medical director for the EPA team that went into the remote town of Libby, Mont., in 1999 to investigate reports of hundreds of deaths and illnesses from asbestosis, mesothelioma and lung cancer.

For example, an applicant lies and says they don't have a history of smoking in order to avoid a costly Smoker classification, but dies a year into their policy from lung cancer or some other lung - related affliction, the insurance company can investigate, determine the death was smoking - related, and decline to pay the death benefit because of application fraud.

Lung cancer has overtaken breast cancer as the first cause of cancer death in Polish women, as well as in women from the UK.

In Poland, 6,343 women will die from lung cancer this year compared to 5,643 in 2007, and this represents an increase in the death rate from 15.53 per 100,000 women to 16.60 in 2011.

The number of women who will die from lung cancer this year in the UK is 15,632 (compared to 14,900 in 2007); this represents a slight drop in the death rate from 20.57 per 100,000 women in 2007 to 20.33 in 2011.

Second - hand smoke was estimated to cause more than 600 000 deaths globally in 2004, mainly from ischaemic heart disease, respiratory infections, asthma and lung cancer.1 Protecting people from the dangers of second - hand smoke by banning smoking in indoor and other public places is an essential element of effective tobacco control programs.2