Sentences with phrase «of getting cancers by»

«If we could get everybody to stop smoking,» Dr. Beck says, «we would probably reduce our risks of getting cancers by well over 30 percent.»

I'm making you a glass of green tea because I heard on the news that it reduces your chance of getting cancer by 15 %

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The firm is already helping a variety of major cancer centers with its tech; the new worker benefit program will allow employees to consult with their doctors by giving them their medical history and getting their specific cancers genetically sequenced.

I sat at my desk surrounded by the usual chat in the open plan offices, I overheard someone talking about her friend who was dying of cancer, I began to shake and a feeling of doom overcame me, I dashed off to the toilet to get away from it all.

Guns are very effective deterrents, and given that 99.9996 % of gun owners don't go out and kill anyone with guns (that's, 35000 murders (assuming one murder per gun owner, which is a generous number, divided by 100m gun owners, which own about 270m guns in the US), it's mind numbingly stupid to argue that GUNS are the problem, or that even legal gun owners are the problem, when you're more likely to get run over by a car (and 13 times more likely to just die of cancer).

Hasker's third proposition is that for the problem of divine non-intervention to be a real problem, «we must be able to identify specific kinds of cases in which God morally ought to intervene but does not» Many critics of (traditional) theism probably already have a more or less vague list of such cases, which might include genocidal events, such as the Nazi holocaust and the Rwandan massacre; wars; large - scale natural disasters; conditions of chronic poverty, in which millions of children die from starvation or are permanently stunted because of inadequate protein; the sexual molestation of children, which often leaves them psychologically scarred for the rest of their lives; death preceded by long, painful illnesses, such as cancer or AIDS, or by mind - destroying conditions, such as Alzheimer's disease; and the kinds of events described by Dostoyevski, such as the soldier using his pistol to get a mother's baby to giggle with delight and then blowing its brains out.

Such an attention getting event might be the simultaneous and overnight, 1) world wide total and permanent remission of all cancers, 2) world wide regeneration of limbs of all amputees, 3) world wide total cessation of sëx trafficking human abuse, 4) world wide total cessation of child abuse, 5) world wide cessation of all hostilities, 6) world wide sudden curing of diseases cause by genetic defects.

Today, I am thrilled to present the very first video on Jeanette's Healthy Living, produced by two of my incredibly creative kids, Kyle and Alex. This video (at the end of this post) is especially meaningful because my youngest son, Alex, is making popsicles for a friend with cancer — he gets it.

By following the dietary patterns recommended in the Guidelines, we will get enough of the nutrients essential for good health and also help reduce our risk of chronic health problems such as heart disease, type 2 diabetes, some cancers and obesity.

I got into trouble with Mom when she was dying of pancreatic cancer by raising vitamin K levels and perhaps causing blood clots.

Breast Cancer Care have launched their Afternoon Tea campaign this week, as a way to get friends and family together to enjoy an afternoon of tea, cakes and sandwiches to raise money for people affected by breast cCancer Care have launched their Afternoon Tea campaign this week, as a way to get friends and family together to enjoy an afternoon of tea, cakes and sandwiches to raise money for people affected by breast cancercancer.

The only realistic way to get the whole shocking cancer out of our club; owner, board and Wenger is to totally stop attending by, hopefully everyone, or at least having a regularly half empty ground.

’12 Ways to Get Past No» by Dr. Laura Markham — Friends of L.R.Knost Rock the Guest Posts while She Battles Cancer

Even if your daughter receives the HPV vaccine, she should still get regular Pap smears beginning at age 21 to screen for forms of cervical cancer not covered by the vaccine.

Parents today are so fearful of kids drowning, getting cancer, contracting lyme disease from a tick, being hit by a car while riding a bike, that we don't let (or MAKE) our children get out and play.

According to an article written by consumer advocate Jenn Strathman of NewsNet5.com in Cleveland, ``... In the medical journal,» Archives of Dermatology,» doctors wrote about two women who got skin cancer on their hand, even though they had no family history of the disease.

A year or so ago I was temporarily seized by the «it's so nice to be with someone and he'll take care of me if I get cancer and I won't die alone» delusion.

Whether you go to a tanning bed, get a tan indirectly by forgetting to wear sunscreen outside, or you're deliberately trying to increase your pregnancy glow - UV radiation from indoor tanning or outdoor tanning, is the leading cause of skin cancer.

So when one of the best ways to prevent breast cancer is breastfeeding and you are «raising breast cancer awareness» by sexualizing breasts, I just don't get it.

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.

Or this study which shows that if you have a family history of breast cancer, breastfeeding for just 3 months can cut your chances of getting breast cancer by 50 % and be just as beneficial as taking breast cancer preventing medication for FIVE years?

Aug. 10, 2009 — Women with a family history of breast cancer who have ever breastfed reduce their risk of getting premenopausal breast cancer by nearly 60 %, according to a new study.

«All of us have been touched by somebody who's gotten cancer and the residents of this area will now be helping other families survive that experience,» said Assemblyman Andrew Goodell, R - Jamestown.

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate has passed a bill introduced by Rep. Chris Collins, a Clarence Republican, that would create a national registry of firefighters who get cancer.

A bill that would allow more patients with cancer, HIV and other serious maladies to sue for medical malpractice has been overwhelmingly approved by the state Assembly, but it stands a dwindling chance of even getting a floor debate in the Senate.

When Gov. Andrew Cuomo had to get to Utah for the debut of his longtime girlfriend Sandra Lee's new documentary on her battle with breast cancer, he hopped on a private plane owned by his big campaign donors, billionaire hedge fund manager Barry Rosenstein and his wife, Lizanne

Prosecutors on Tuesday showed the jury emails from Taub that suggested the then - Columbia University cancer doctor secretly disdained Silver and his law firm as part of a dog - eat - dog crowd that merely sought to get rich off mesothelioma, a rare form of cancer caused by exposure to asbestos.

ALBANY — A bill that would allow more patients with cancer, HIV and other serious maladies to sue for medical malpractice has been overwhelmingly approved by the state Assembly, but it stands a dwindling chance of even getting a floor debate in the Senate.

Leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats, Kirsty Williams, has criticised the Welsh Labour Government's failure to get a grip on cancer waiting time after statistics released today show that the waiting times target has been missed by over 10 %.

Along the way, according to a 2013 study, you'd get dosed with the radiation equivalent of a whole - body CT scan every five to six days, increasing your lifetime cancer risk above the limits set by NASA.

Assuming that the values and parameters for speed, radiation dose and risk stated above for Stuker are also true for you, dividing your total miles by 3,700,000,000 will give your approximate odds of getting cancer from your flying time.

Survivors of melanoma were more likely to limit exposure to the sun than people who had never had the disease, but some still reported seeking out suntans and getting sunburns, reports a new article in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research by Rachel Isaksson Vogel, PhD, an assistant professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Women's Health at the University of Minnesota.

This was discovered by scientists of the Gastroesophageal Tumor Unit (CCC - GET) of the Comprehensive Cancer Center (CCC) Vienna of the MedUni Vienna and the AKH Vienna in a joint study with the National Institutes of Health, USA, and the Johns Hopkins University, USA.

The prostate cancer discovery, described last month by Ila Singh, an associate professor of pathology at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, et al. in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), along with a traditionally high incidence of cancer in CFS patients, got Mikovits and her team thinking: Would they find the same retrovirus in people with CFS?

A weakened immune system is thought to increase a person's risk of getting several cancers caused by other viruses, including non-Hodgkin and Hodgkin lymphomas; anogenital cancers, including penile, vaginal / vulvar, cervix, and anal; Kaposi sarcoma; and possibly oral - related cancers; and liver cancer.

«Since 95 percent of cancer patients still get chemo, we realized we could make a major impact on cancer treatment by helping clinicians prescribe the right chemotherapy drug,» said Sourav Bandyopadhyay, PhD, a professor of bioengineering and therapeutic sciences in UCSF's Schools of Pharmacy and Medicine and senior author on the new study.

The tech transfer internship program at the University of Michigan is run by Elaine Brock, the director of the Medical School's Office of Technology Transfer and Corporate Research, a lawyer who was also trained in health services administration; and assistant director Maria Sippola - Thiele, a former National Cancer Institute postdoc who subsequently got her M.B.A. from the University of Michigan.

We get heavily hyped drugs like Avastin, which shrank tumors without adding significant time to cancer patients» lives (and increased the incidence of heart failure and blood clots to boot); Avandia, which lowered blood sugar in diabetics but raised the average risk of heart attack by 43 percent; torcetrapib, which raised both good cholesterol and death rates; and Flurizan, which reduced brain plaque but failed to slow the cognitive ravages of Alzheimer's disease before trials were finally halted in 2008.

A study done by researchers at Fox Chase Cancer Center shows that many relatives of patients who undergo testing for a gene linked to breast and ovarian cancers misinterpret the results, and less than half of those who could benefit from genetic testing say they plan to get tested themselves — despite the fact that knowing your genetic status may help catch the disease in its earliest stages.

They estimated that, for each step - by - step increase in the women's consumption of red meat, there was a step - by - step increase in the risk of getting breast cancer over the 20 year study period.

If you are going to try to change the genetic makeup of the cancer cells by inserting genes, you must first get the genes to the cancer cells.

Adding this variable angle slant hole collimator to an existing breast molecular imaging system allows the system to get six times better contrast of cancer lesions in the breast, providing the same or better image quality while also potentially reducing the radiation dose to the patient by half.

This law is so weak, critics say, that an EPA effort to ban asbestos — a class of fibrous minerals known to cause the deadly lung cancer mesothelioma — got struck down by a federal court in 1991 because the agency had failed to comply with another TSCA mandate that the agency pick the «least burdensome» way of regulating a substance.

Cystine is responsible for maintaining high levels of antioxidants that disarm free radicals of oxygen; so when the researchers got rid of this nutrient, the cancer cells essentially died by their own hand of free radical damage.

«In states like North Carolina that didn't expand Medicaid, there is a large group of people who can get insurance on the federal exchange but can not get subsidies because the law assumed they would be covered by Medicaid,» said Dusetzina, who is also a member of Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center.

«Someday, thanks to studies like this one, we'll get to the top of the mountain and convert this particular cancer into a chronic disease — something that patients can live with, controlled by medication.»

Cancer cells are well - known as voracious energy consumers, but even veteran cancer - metabolism researcher Deepak Nagrath was surprised by their latest exploit: Experiments in his lab at Rice University show that some cancer cells get 30 - 60 percent of their fuel from eating their neighbors» «words.&Cancer cells are well - known as voracious energy consumers, but even veteran cancer - metabolism researcher Deepak Nagrath was surprised by their latest exploit: Experiments in his lab at Rice University show that some cancer cells get 30 - 60 percent of their fuel from eating their neighbors» «words.&cancer - metabolism researcher Deepak Nagrath was surprised by their latest exploit: Experiments in his lab at Rice University show that some cancer cells get 30 - 60 percent of their fuel from eating their neighbors» «words.&cancer cells get 30 - 60 percent of their fuel from eating their neighbors» «words.»

Rice University researchers found that some cancer cells get as much as 60 percent of their fuel from eating exosomes, tiny communications packets emitted by neighboring cells.

Nguyen is developing ways to guide surgeons during tumor removal surgery by using fluorescent compounds to make tumor cells — and just tumor cells — glow during surgery, which helps surgeons perform successful operations and get more of the cancer out of the body.

For many the initial reaction of hearing «It's cancer» is shock followed by «I need to get this out.»