Sentences with phrase «more than any other cancer»

Exercise has been shown to prevent colon cancer more than any other cancer.

Not exact matches

Patients who exercised more than others had a lower readmission risks following cancer surgery.

Last year, the CDC found that U.S. life expectancy had actually dropped for the first time in more than two decades to an average of 78.8 years and that every major leading cause of death other than cancer was killing more people.

One setback for these therapies which use the body's immune system to fight cancers is that they are, at times, more effective in certain patient pools than others.

More than 35,000 oncologists, researchers, life science executives, and other stakeholders flocked to the world's largest cancer conference between June 3 and 7 to discuss the most exciting new advances in the field.

BioNTech, which has around 700 employees at sites in Germany — more than any other unlisted biotech firm in Europe — is also working on other cancer - fighting technologies, including antibodies, cell therapies and small molecules.

But if he has been answering the prayers could they start praying for a cure for cancer and the genetic code of algae that make gasoline and how to grow food in salty soil and lots of other stuff that is more important than mankind's salvation?

Sometimes I wonder if perhaps the rooms of Alcoholics Anonymous have, at some point in its 76 year history, contained individuals who possessed the ability to do great things — cure cancer, revolutionize politics, or contribute other great things to society — but whose minds became so polluted with AA propaganda that they shut off their own brilliance and chose to spend the rest of their lives «making their sobriety their number one priority» and believing humility to be more valuable than fulfilling their potential and allowing their greatness to shine.

Americans generally eat way more meat than what their bodies can handle, and I'm quite sure that this is one of the major contributing factors to heart disease, cancer, and other diseases so prevalent in our society.

Watermelon packs more of the cancer - fighting antioxidant lycopene than any other fresh fruit or vegetable.

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There are more than 50 published studies about blueberry research involving antioxidants, anti-aging and cancer, to eyesight, brain function, diabetes and other topics.

They contain more antioxidants than most other fruits or vegetables and may help prevent damage caused by cancer, heart disease, and Alzheimer's.

Dietary fiber does more than contribute to what we delicately refer to as «regularity» — it also aids in digestion and can play a role in preventing heart disease and colon cancer, among other conditions.

Of all others given a diagnosis of lung cancer in June 2009, more than half had died by January.

Smoking is also the leading cause — in fact, it's practically the only cause — of lung cancer, which kills more American women every year than any other cancer, including breast cancer.

Researchers also don't know if these women are more likely to die of cancer than others.

The study indicated that even a small period of breastfeeding reduces the risk of these stubborn tumors, which are more common in younger women and generally have a poorer prognosis than other subtypes of breast cancer.

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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.

More than 5,400 Ground Zero responders and others who lived, worked or attended school near the World Trade Center have come down with Sept. 11 - related cancers, a tally that has tripled over the last two - and - a-half years.

Five other funds created in the past four years — Homeless Veterans Assistance, Veteran's Remembrance and Cemetery Maintenance and Operation, Women's Cancers Education and Prevention, Mental Illness Anti-Stigma, and NYS Teen Health Education — each had more than $ 1 million in their accounts.

«This research represents a big step forward in understanding why some tumors are more aggressive than others and being able to predict rationally which neoantigens will be the most effective at stimulating an immune response,» said Dr. Balachandran, a member of the David M. Rubenstein Center for Pancreatic Cancer Research at MSK, and corresponding author of the companion study in Nature.

RADIATION therapy to treat cancer is more effective in some people than others.

About 52 percent (34 of 66) of patients had personality - related problems, although sometimes without a formal diagnosis and more than a majority of patients had at least one coexisting illness, including cancer, cardiac disease, diabetes, stroke and others.

The new findings are especially disconcerting because cervical cancer — which is caused almost exclusively by HPV — is more prevalent in the South than in any other region.

Can it tell us whether we're more likely than others to get aging - related diseases like heart disease, cancer, or a stroke?

We know that they are under stress when they are fighting cancer or other diseases, so I wondered whether anything measureable could be seen if we put them under further stress with UVA light.We found that people with cancer have DNA which is more easily damaged by ultraviolet light than other people, so the test shows the sensitivity to damage of all the DNA — the genome — in a cell.»

But success could leave a lasting mark on cancer care, by helping hundreds of thousands of patients every year, far more than other genetically targeted therapies.

Studies have shown that more than 50 % of all human cancers carry defects in the p53 gene, and almost all other cancers with a normal p53 function carry other defects which indirectly impair the cancer - fighting function of p53.

The biological complexity of cancer and other diseases demands a more formidable arsenal of therapies than currently available.

Carlo La Vecchia (MD), Professor at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Milan (Italy), one of the study authors, said: «Predictions of death rates from leukemia are complicated by the fact that leukemias are a varied collection of blood cancers, with some being more treatable than others.

«This peptide is exciting in the sense that it provides a new alternative for treating these infections, which are predicted to kill more people annually than any other cause of death in our society, including cancer.»

Long noncoding RNA (lncRNA), which contains more than 200 nucleotides, are thought to play a role in autoimmune diseases and cancers by interacting with other RNA, DNA, and proteins.

Triple - negative tumors are aggressive and more likely to metastasize than other breast cancers, and there is no effective treatment.

Even more than other types of cancer, melanoma is a disease of aging, with older patients more frequently diagnosed with the disease and having a worse prognosis.

A recent study found that more cancer mutations are caused by these random mistakes than other factors, such as environment or inheritance, Tina Hesman Saey reported in «DNA errors play big role in cancer» (SN: 4/15/17, p. 6).

Triple - negative tumors are also more likely to spread and recur than other types of breast cancers.

Why do some tissues give rise to cancer in humans a million times more frequently than others?

More than 200 people have weighed in so far, many of them frustrated researchers, grant reviewers, and others inside and outside the cancer field.

Deltour and others also note that many cancers can take more than a decade to take hold.

Researchers from the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) have discovered more than 40 genes that predict the level of aggressiveness of melanoma and that distinguish it from other cancers with a poor prognosis.

HPV - negative / Pap test - positive results preceded only small fractions of cases of precancer (3.5 %) and cancer (5.9 %); these cancers were more likely to be regional or distant stage than other cases.

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.

«Much more than other cells, cancer cells need excessive levels of ATP to grow and divide.

The study evaluated 56 patients with ovarian clear cell adenocarcinoma (CCA), an aggressive form of ovarian cancer that is more likely to be resistant to chemotherapy and to have a poorer prognosis than other forms of this disease.

More than 500 clinical trials are underway to explore the impact of these and other checkpoint inhibitors on a dozen varieties of cancer, alone or with other immunotherapies, as well as conventional treatments.

In other words, the probability of death from cancer among astronauts should be no more than 3 percent above the average probability of death from cancer among the general population in the United States.

The senior author of the study, Deanna Kepka, PhD, MPH, a Huntsman Cancer Institute investigator and assistant professor in the College of Nursing at the University of Utah, added that, «We are interested in looking at cultural values that may make certain demographic groups in the United States, such as Latinos, more supportive of adolescent vaccination than other demographic groups.

In India, where people eat more dairy in the form of yogurt, other researchers have documented higher rates of breast cancer but still lower than those of Western nations.