Sentences with phrase «number of cancer cases»

Chemotherapy technicians might experience excellent job prospects as indicated by statistics from the American Society of Clinical Oncology, which predicted a 48 % increase in the number of cancer cases from 2007 - 2020.

Not only in India, but there is a general alarming increase in the number of cancer cases across the globe and researches and studies say that the number would keep on increasing and there is less chance of cancer to be curbed given the population increase across worldwide.

Not only in India, but there is a general alarming increase in the number of cancer cases across the globe... Read More

The researchers expect the number of cancer cases will likely rise as Americans get fatter.

The number of cancer cases is ever - growing, in 2017 alone, 1,688,780 new cases were diagnosed.

«It's important to understand the cause so we can do a better job at reducing the number of cancer cases using dietary modifications or therapeutic interventions.»

A small number of cancer cases would result from scanning hundreds of millions of passengers a year.

Experts say the dose from the backscatter is negligible when compared with naturally occurring background radiation, but a linear model shows even such trivial amounts increase the number of cancer cases

The department launched an interactive map on its Web site Monday, allowing users to find the number of cancer cases in their community simply by typing in an address or zip code.

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As I've said, there have been a number of research papers of late, led in large part by the work of French scientist Laurence Zitvogel, that are building a strong case for a central role for the microbiome in cancer treatment response.

Yet 20 % of women diagnosed with lung cancer each year — about 21,000 in 2010, roughly the same number as new cases of ovarian cancer — never smoked.

The coalition has been awarded three grants over the past five years: Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment Cancer, Cardiovascular Disease and Pulmonary Disease Grant with the goal of increasing the number of policies and practices that promote and support breastfeeding - friendly environments; Business Case for Breastfeeding Grant to educate employers on how to comply with the Workplace Accommodations for Nursing Mothers Act and a Women Infants and Children (WIC) Local Agency Breastfeeding Special Project Grant.

Of note, our point estimate for premature death exceeds the annual number of U.S. deaths from cervical cancer (3,909), asthma (3,361), or influenza (3,055).45 If a randomized control trial were to demonstrate similar effects to those reported in the observational literature, the «number needed to treat» with optimal breastfeeding to prevent a case of maternal hypertension would be 35, to prevent a maternal MI would be 135, and to prevent a case of breast cancer would be 38Of note, our point estimate for premature death exceeds the annual number of U.S. deaths from cervical cancer (3,909), asthma (3,361), or influenza (3,055).45 If a randomized control trial were to demonstrate similar effects to those reported in the observational literature, the «number needed to treat» with optimal breastfeeding to prevent a case of maternal hypertension would be 35, to prevent a maternal MI would be 135, and to prevent a case of breast cancer would be 38of U.S. deaths from cervical cancer (3,909), asthma (3,361), or influenza (3,055).45 If a randomized control trial were to demonstrate similar effects to those reported in the observational literature, the «number needed to treat» with optimal breastfeeding to prevent a case of maternal hypertension would be 35, to prevent a maternal MI would be 135, and to prevent a case of breast cancer would be 38of maternal hypertension would be 35, to prevent a maternal MI would be 135, and to prevent a case of breast cancer would be 38of breast cancer would be 385.

«The number of new cancer cases can be reduced and many cancer deaths can be prevented through routine cancer screening.

Asbestos products are now banned in most developed countries, but since this form of cancer takes decades to develop, the number of cases in these nations is still climbing.

Medicare in 2000 allowed proton treatment, on a case - by - case basis, for «conditions of possible benefit» — usually prostate cancer — never suspecting the number of treatment centers would grow.

«This study demonstrates the value of using the SEER database to analyze factors associated with surgery as a treatment for localized pancreatic cancer in a large number of patients over a prolonged period of time,» says Dr. Kim, who is also Chief Medical Officer of UH Seidman Cancer Center and the Charles Hubay Professor at Case Western Reserve School of Medcancer in a large number of patients over a prolonged period of time,» says Dr. Kim, who is also Chief Medical Officer of UH Seidman Cancer Center and the Charles Hubay Professor at Case Western Reserve School of MedCancer Center and the Charles Hubay Professor at Case Western Reserve School of Medicine.

Using data from the NCI's Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program, which tracks cancer cases in the U.S., he estimated the number of people to whom the new treatments would apply.

The researchers used data from 1983 to 1985, the three years immediately preceding the PSA screening test, to determine the rate of metastatic prostate cancer cases without screening and used the rate to extrapolate the number of cases in 2008, the latest year for which data are available.

«Obesity increasingly plays a role in cancer cases as the numbers of those who are obese rise.

The actual disparity in number of cases between the two groups was small, with 129 lung cancers in all, and the trial wasn't set up to study that disease.

Considering the thousands of people diagnosed with these cancers annually, a 1 % increase in early - stage diagnosis could add up to a significant number of new cases and potentially lead to better outcomes.

«We're seeing that this cancer is likely very underreported, and as more information on this type of cancer comes to light, the number of cases is likely to increase in the coming years,» said Dino Ravnic, assistant professor of surgery, Penn State College of Medicine.

The risks have been «smoothed» to adjust for chance fluctuations that can occur when there are small numbers of cases especially for cancers such as leukemia and brain cancer.

Because it is so deadly and because the number of new cases is increasing, it is predicted to be the second leading cause of cancer deaths in the western world by 2020, trailing only lung cancer, he adds.

Acknowledging that «this is not a big study, in terms of the overall number of cases, for ovarian cancer it's a very big study,» explains Annekatrin Lukanova of the International Agency for Cancer Research in Lyon, Fcancer it's a very big study,» explains Annekatrin Lukanova of the International Agency for Cancer Research in Lyon, FCancer Research in Lyon, France.

This study was supported by Norma C. and Albert I. Geller via the Gynecological Cancer Translation Research Program at the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, and grants from The Mary Kay Foundation (to A.D. and R.X.), the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute Of Child Health & Human Development of the National Institutes of Health under the NIH Director's New Innovator award number DP2HD084068 (to R.X.), The National Cancer Institute award number R011CA197780 - 01A1 (to A.D.), and The Young Scientist Foundation (A.D.Of Child Health & Human Development of the National Institutes of Health under the NIH Director's New Innovator award number DP2HD084068 (to R.X.), The National Cancer Institute award number R011CA197780 - 01A1 (to A.D.), and The Young Scientist Foundation (A.D.of the National Institutes of Health under the NIH Director's New Innovator award number DP2HD084068 (to R.X.), The National Cancer Institute award number R011CA197780 - 01A1 (to A.D.), and The Young Scientist Foundation (A.D.of Health under the NIH Director's New Innovator award number DP2HD084068 (to R.X.), The National Cancer Institute award number R011CA197780 - 01A1 (to A.D.), and The Young Scientist Foundation (A.D.).

But, he says, «the number of new cases of pancreatic cancer every year is 40,000, and the number of deaths every year is 40,000.»

The study measured the total number of cases of metastatic prostate cancer, not the incidence, for example, of cases per 100,000.

Unfortunately, a number of patients died from the infections instead of their cancer; just how many is hard to say since medical studies in the 1800s were not methodical and often consisted of case reports.

Effective preventive vaccines against the most oncogenic forms of HPV have been available for a number of years, with vaccination having the long - term potential to reduce the number of cases of cervical cancer,» said NCI Acting Director Douglas Lowy, M.D.

These data, published in the Journal of Thoracic Oncology, the official journal of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer, suggest that these elevated numbers of malignant mesothelioma cases are linked to environmental exposure of carcinogenic mineral fibers.

The existence of cancer stem cells has already been reported in a number of human cancers, explains Professor Jacobsen, but previous findings have remained controversial since the lab tests used to establish the identity of cancer stem cells have been shown to be unreliable and, in any case, do not reflect the «real situation» in an intact tumour in a patient.

Moscow's air is heavily polluted and the city's hospitals have had to deal with an increasing number of cases of chronic bronchitis, asthma and lung cancer.

In cases where there are lots of T cells in the vicinity of a tumor, or where tumor cells have undergone large numbers of mutations, which creates additional targets for immune sentries, T cells will signal a full - fledged immune response to the cancer.

Indoor tanning is currently estimated to cause about 419,000 cases of skin cancer every year, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — almost double the number of cases of lung cancer linked to smoking.

While these findings support the importance of neonatal HBV vaccination, the small number of cases of primary liver cancer and other liver diseases observed during the 30 - year follow up, the length of follow - up, and the availability of incomplete data on seroprevalence all limit the accuracy of these findings.

Analysis linking number of stem cell divisions to different cancer risks suggests most cancer cases can't be prevented

Since 1980, the incidence of hepatocellular carcinoma, the most common type of liver cancer, has nearly tripled, and obesity related liver disease is one of the driving forces behind the increasing number of cases.

«While there have been several advances in treating cancer and improving the quality of life of patients, the number of new cases continues to surge,» said Jamie Bernard, lead author and an assistant professor in pharmacology and toxicology.

Even though cancers account for a relatively small share of all disease in developing countries, the actual number of cases is greater than in the industrialised world because of the larger populations, says Indraneel Mittra, an oncologist at the Tata Memorial Centre (TMC) in Bombay.

«In cases where you are trying to make therapeutic decisions, you want to have some numbers that you can fall back on,» says Vincent Liu, a graduate student in Cima's lab at MIT's Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research and lead author of the paper.

The National Cancer Institute says the number of new cases of non-melanoma skin cancer appears to be increasing everyCancer Institute says the number of new cases of non-melanoma skin cancer appears to be increasing everycancer appears to be increasing every year.

Over 1 million new cases of skin cancer diagnosed each year, outnumbering the total number of other cancers combined, according to Melanoma International.

And they blame the lack of funding on a kind of cancer catch - 22: Numbers — or in this case, their lack — in turn drive research priorities.

They also found that 11 percent of the stomach cancer cases included such germline truncations, which was a surprise, according to the researchers, because that number is on par with the percentage for breast cancer.

GATK4 will also extend the range of use cases supported by GATK to include cancer, structural variation, copy number variation, and more.

In Europe, it is the single most important cancer in terms of severity, number of cases, absence of effective screening programs and therapies, lack of a readily avoidable cause and cost for society.

With your support, Dr. Petty and his team will expand upon their work in breast cancer research, educating patients to make more informed treatment decisions, and ultimately reducing the number of overdiagnosed and overtreated cases across the country.

It is true there are quite a number of very dramatic cases in which cancers seem to have gone away or arrested and regressed.