Sentences with phrase «of lung cancer deaths»

After cigarette smoking, the radioactive gas — called radon — is the second leading cause of lung cancer deaths in the U.S., claiming the lives of about 21,000 people each year.

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.

The impact on health is immense: Air pollution was responsible in 2015 for 19 % of all cardiovascular deaths worldwide, 24 % of ischaemic heart disease deaths, 21 % of stroke deaths, and 23 % of lung cancer deaths.

It's the cause of 90 % of all lung cancer deaths, and can even cause cancer in many other parts of the body.

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.

CT lung cancer screening is deemed an Essential Health Benefit, covered by many private health insurers, while Medicare beneficiaries have lesser access to these exams and increased risk of lung cancer death due to lack of coverage.

Not exact matches

Smoking is one of the single biggest risk factors for lung cancer, which makes up more than 13 % of all new cancer diagnoses and more than one in four cancer deaths in the U.S.

Not only does driving a truck with outdated equipment put the driver and surrounding motorists at risk, the truck's emissions cause a range of serious illnesses, lung cancer, and even death.

Dirty air, water, and working conditions are associated with some of the most prominent causes of death in the world, including heart disease, cancer, and lung disease.

Of course diet is relevant to diabetes, smoking to lung cancer (though as you said, not always... I know a guy whose good friend died of lung cancer at 31... never smoked... they said when you get that type of lung cancer, it's pretty much a death sentence), etcOf course diet is relevant to diabetes, smoking to lung cancer (though as you said, not always... I know a guy whose good friend died of lung cancer at 31... never smoked... they said when you get that type of lung cancer, it's pretty much a death sentence), etcof lung cancer at 31... never smoked... they said when you get that type of lung cancer, it's pretty much a death sentence), etcof lung cancer, it's pretty much a death sentence), etc..

The press conference came several days after the death of police officer Marcy Simms, who died of lung cancer she developed after being exposed to the Ground Zero site.

The EPA has found that ETS is responsible for the lung cancer deaths of approximately 3,000 nonsmokers in the United States on an annual basis.

The family of a 67 year old South Bronx woman, who died of lung cancer, is holding the New York City Housing Authority responsible for her death due to the horrible living conditions of her apartment.

What can explain the lung cancer that afflicts the «houses of death» in Turkey?

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.

However, the total number of deaths will remain slightly higher for breast cancer (90,800) than for lung (87,500).

The overall death rate for lung cancer among women is being driven by women in the UK and Poland, with predicted rates of 21 and 17 per 100,000 in the UK and Poland respectively.

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.

These rates are more than double those in Spain, which has a lung cancer death rate among women of just over eight per 100,000.

Lung cancer will become the first cause of death in European women in the next few years, overtaking breast cancer,» said Prof La Vecchia.

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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«Colorectal cancer is the second most common cause of cancer deaths [after lung cancer] in the United States and is an enormous health problem around the world,» said the study's lead author, Robert J. Mayer, MD, faculty vice president for academic affairs, medical oncologist and colorectal cancer researcher at Dana - Farber.

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

«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.»

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Lung cancer is the second most common cancer in both men and women, accounting for about 13 percent of all new cancers, and about 27 percent of cancer deaths.

Breast cancer kills about 40,000 women annually making it the second leading cause of cancer death in women — exceeded only by lung cancer, according to the American Cancer Socancer kills about 40,000 women annually making it the second leading cause of cancer death in women — exceeded only by lung cancer, according to the American Cancer Socancer death in women — exceeded only by lung cancer, according to the American Cancer Socancer, according to the American Cancer SoCancer Society.

Depression alone was the leading cause of disability in every region of the world except sub-Saharan Africa, and outranked the death and disability caused by anemia (a sign of malnutrition), heart disease, cancer, malaria and lung disease.

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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.

New research shows that microRNA - 486 is a potent tumor - suppressor molecule in lung cancer, and that the it helps regulate the proliferation and migration of lung - cancer cells, and the induction of programmed cell death, or apoptosis, in those cells.

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Lung cancer, which also affects nonsmokers, is the leading cause of cancer - related deaths in the country (estimated to be nearly 160,000 this year).

Bowel cancer kills more than 16,000 people a year in the UK, making it the nation's second-most common cause of cancer death (after lung cancer).

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in the United States, killing more than 135,000 people per year.

While lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death and the second most commonly diagnosed cancer in both men and women, a low survival rate makes it the number eight cancer site represented among survivors.

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in men and women in the United States.

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

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths in the United States with an estimated 160,000 deaths each year and worldwide there are 1.4 million deaths.

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.

Five years ago it was the fourth - leading cause of cancer deaths in the U.S. Today it's number three and expected to soon overtake colon cancer for the number - two spot, right behind lung cancer.

The most common causes of deaths related to smoking among people in prison were lung cancer, heart disease, stroke, and chronic lung disease.

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Lung cancer is the most common cause of cancer deaths, accounting for about a third of all tumor - related deaths.

«Historically, when treating early lung cancer with radiotherapy, progression at the site of the primary tumor was the most common failure resulting in suffering and death,» said lead study author Robert Timmerman, MD, professor and vice chair of the department of radiation oncology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas.

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