Sentences with phrase «number of cancers»

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

Because of the urgent needs of a large number of cancer patients, most of these gene therapy trials are directed against cancer.

They are prone to a large number of cancers that can be of the skin, lymph nodes, reproductive organs or internal organs.

In the present study, the researchers show that the actual number of cancer stem cells decreases.

In today's world, the rising number of cancer diagnosis and its prolonged treatment afterwards result in the tremendous increase in the cost of cancer care.

Whether or not by chance, this same anomaly is found in a certain number of cancers.

«The growing number of cancer survivors in the U.S. makes it increasingly important to understand the unique medical and psychosocial needs of survivors,» said Carol DeSantis, MPH, American Cancer Society epidemiologist and lead author of the reports.

We can find small numbers of cancer cells in blood, which really is like searching for a needle in a haystack.»

They find that tumors lacking Numb have increased numbers of cancer stem cells, thus providing the tumor with a higher potential to spread and grow.

Although great strides have been made against smoking, «there are still 40 million smokers in the U.S., so we can continue to expect large numbers of cancer deaths and heart disease as a result,» he pointed out.

While circulating tumor DNA tests targeting a smaller set of cancer genes are already available for use in routine practice to guide care, by covering a much larger number of cancer genes, this high - intensity sequencing approach may enable development of future tests for early detection of cancer.

The total number of cancer patients included in the analysis was 6,806.

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However, Professor La Vecchia said: «The absolute numbers of cancer deaths are likely to level off in the future.»

Remarkably, this «bad luck» component explains a far greater number of cancers than do hereditary and environmental factors.

They say the overall number of cancer deaths is set to rise in 2012 because of ageing populations.

The report, prepared by the US Department of Health and Human Services (DHSS) for Congress, is the first attempt to estimate the total number of cancers caused by the atmospheric testing programme.

St. Louis County had previously said that it would be collaborating with the ATSDR on a health study focused on a limited number of cancers known to be associated with exposure to low levels of ionizing radiation.

Partial response, commonly referred to as PR, is a partial decrease in the size of a cancerous tumor or a decrease in the total number of cancer lesions.

What they found is that saturated fats produced the least number of cancers, while omega - 6 polyunsaturated fats produced the most.

By getting rid of the microbes in the organs, plus doing the normal cancer treatments, the balance (i.e. a strong immune system and a low number of cancer cells) is restored enough to keep cancer from coming back.

He said the new strategy would recognise the challenges posed by the rising number of cancer cases as well as patients» heightened expectations.

With the entire world watching the recent Fukushima events and the rising of radiation levels, reported mutations and increasing numbers of cancer patients (Kudo himself died of cancer) his oeuvre can be regarded as a valid political statement of contemporary culture on a global scale.

«Historically, these electronic records are billing and collection tools, documentation we have to comply with to get paid,» explains Jeffrey Patton, a physician and CEO of Tennessee Oncology, a community - based health system that treats the largest number of cancer patients in the state and is one of hundreds of community cancer centers that now uses Flatiron's system.

The bill also includes a measure known as Trevor's law that encourages federal agencies to study «cancer clusters» — areas that appear to have unusually high numbers of cancer cases that may be linked to a shared environmental cause.

Previous research has shown that a significant number of these cancer «recurrences» are actually persistent tumors that were missed during the first surgical procedure.

In patients who have undergone chemotherapy and radiation, a small number of cancer cells can remain in the bloodstream and allow the malignancy to recur.

By the group's calculation, the mass screenings incurred a high likelihood of invasive follow - up testing and anxiety while finding a relatively small number of cancers that would have been lethal if they were caught later.

Skin cancers make up over half the total number of cancers that occur in dogs they are considerably less common (but more worrysome) in cats:

According to one theory, the increased radiation received by hundreds of thousands of citizens will cause an increase in their cancer rate — but an increase too tiny to detect amid the large number of cancers that will occur anyway.

A series of preliminary Mayo Clinic studies conducted in 2010 showed promise for the potential use of a chemical component of green tea (epigallocatechin gallate) in reducing the number of cancer cells in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia.

(Smoking substantially increases a person's risk of getting a number of cancers, heart and lung diseases, and other ailments.)

«The situation with the number of cancer drugs on the market has improved since then,» Jensen said.

In developing children, the «sunshine vitamin» is essential to health to strengthen bones and the immune system — and reduce the risk of a number of cancers.

Obesity does broadly correlate to increased rates of a range of illnesses including diabetes and a number of cancers.

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.

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

While Bcl6 is active in a number of cancers, including leukemia and breast cancer, work testing a Bcl6 inhibitor is most advanced in DLBCL.

In a letter to Epidemiology, Tsuda claims to have addressed the screening effect by adjusting the number of cancer cases to account for the lag time between when an ultrasound examination would catch the cancers and when they could be clinically identified.

As the number of cancer survivors climbs into the many millions, researchers are trying to learn why some acquire treatment - related diseases and others do not.

«That appears to be the case in ATC, and it is probably likely true in a number of cancers.»

Extending national breast cancer screening programs to women over the age of 70 does not result in a decrease in the numbers of cancers detected at advanced stages, according to new research from The Netherlands.

When patients are not diagnosed early, these conditions have unfavorable prognosis — worse than a number of cancers — with most of the patients dying within five years.