Sentences with phrase «only at cancer»

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He was addressing an intimate crowd at the StartUp Health Café in San Francisco about the White House Cancer Moonshot — the widely praised initiative he had begun leading just a year ago and that, only days from now, was slated to lose its potent «White House» prefix — when he began talking about his eldest son.

«I only have the data at a very high level, but we did detect a small number of people who tested positively in their DNA for being at risk for cancer.

Only a few people knew it, but Steve Jobs would succumb to cancer the next day, and he lay ill at home during the event.

We are not only talking about being able to beat computers at chess again but to boost our information processing and creativity — to accelerate medical discoveries that cure cancers, for example.

Not only does driving a truck with outdated equipment put the driver and surrounding motorists at risk, the truck's emissions cause a range of serious illnesses, lung cancer, and even death.

But still only a fraction of cancer patients at the advanced state Belvin was at, and given the drug Belvin got, experience the kind of medical «comeback» she did.

The obstacles mean that only two - thirds of Canadians at risk of cervical cancer are regularly screened for it — a rate that's much lower among new Canadians, low - income womenand remote populations.

Rick Perry and Michele Bachmann, two presidential candidates who sparred over the issue of Texas vaccinations, may be floundering in the polls, but the topic of Merck's controversial Gardasil is heating up — with an Austrian physician who studied the drug saying it is not only dangerous, but useless in reducing cervical cancer, the stated reason it was administered to young girls at the behest of Gov. Perry.

When I was at Moody Bible Institute, a fellow student was diagnosed with an advanced case of cancer and given only a few years to live.

Her husband had died of cancer at 38, after only three years of marriage.

This was spurred by the loss of my mother to cancer when I was 20, my father essentially left my much younger brother and sister to my care for many months at a time only coming home 1 - 2 x a week and then less and less until it would be only a call every week or two to «check on things».

When he died of a fast - acting cancer at the height of his intellectual powers, he had completed only the entries for the letters A, B, and C.

Who has not prayed that someone be cured of the cancer that saps her life, only to stand at a grave a week later commending her soul to God and committing the body to the earth?

The abortion fight has also been running hotter, with the Komen Foundation cutting funding for breast cancer screenings at Planned Parenthood, only to reverse course a few days later under tremendous pressure from supporters of abortion rights.

When Nick was struck with cancer in 1996, he had to suspend his column during his treatments, and since he was a freelancer here with no benefits, he would be losing his only source of income at a time when he needed it most.

But consider the price at which that comfort is purchased: it requires us to believe in and love a God whose good ends will be realized not only in spite of» but entirely by way of» every cruelty, every fortuitous misery, every catastrophe, every betrayal, every sin the world has ever known; it requires us to believe in the eternal spiritual necessity of a child dying an agonizing death from diphtheria, of a young mother ravaged by cancer, of tens of thousands of Asians swallowed in an instant by the sea, of millions murdered in death camps and gulags and forced famines.

At the time I made the Blood Pudding my husband could only eat soft things due to oral cancer.

The win / win benefits to not only the environment but also health care — with plant - based diets known to reduce heart disease, diabetes, several types of cancer, and obesity (currently at a shocking 23 per cent, with 60 per cent of Canadians overweight)-- make this negligence incomprehensible.»

This competition was held not only to give a few companies bragging rights, but also to raise both awareness and money for the Snowdrop Foundation, a worthy organization dedicated to assisting patients and families at Texas Children's Cancer Center.

We included prospective studies that provided hazard ratios (HRs) with 95 % confidence intervals (CI) for at least three categories (including the reference group) of milk consumption in relation to mortality from all causes, overall cardiovascular disease, or overall cancer, We omitted studies that only reported results for total milk products or combined non-fermented and fermented milk because non-fermented and fermented milk may have different associations with mortality.

«We like to think of Lucas as our Chief Inspiration Officer and know that not only are we inspiring a new generation of cooks and consumers, but we are supporting his efforts to raise funds to serve pediatric cancer patients and their families via restaurants and chef - designed meal kits for cooking at home.»

Only at the @dickiev amazing event for pediatric cancer research!

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.

For some reason, the rumor has been going around, especially in parenting communities where loving parents want to protect their kids at all costs, that religiously wearing sunscreen is the only way to prevent skin cancer.

This can be a vicious cancer if itís neglected.î According to the same AAP report mentioned earlier, ìThere is at least a threefold increased risk of penile cancer in uncircumcised men; phimosis, a condition that exists only in uncircumcised men, increases this risk further.î He adds that circumcision eliminates a source of complications for some medical procedures.

Meta - analysis of Studies Including Only Children Diagnosed as Having Cancer at Age 1 Year or Older

There's only one study that I am aware of that has looked at the impact of a decent length of breastfeeding on risk of breast cancer.

The doctor at the center of the corruption charges against former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver «disapproved» of him and his law firm and referred cancer patients there only as long...

A diagnosis of breast cancer brings a complex range of emotional and practical concerns, and being unable to access necessary drugs can only cause extra anxiety at an already difficult time.

The doctor at the center of the Silver scandal «disapproved» of him and his law firm and referred cancer patients there only as long as the former speaker was funneling him state money for research, the court papers claim.

She died on Sunday of colon cancer at her home in Manhattan, only eight months after starting the post.

My mom died of cancer at 39, my grandfather died of a heart attack at 51, and the only thing I fear now is that I die and don't have the document that legally protects the man who taught me how to love.

On average, between 2006 - 2010, only 66 % of the breast cancer cases in Erie County were diagnosed at an early stage, so we have a great deal of room for improvement.»

The doctor at the center of the corruption charges against former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver «disapproved» of him and his law firm and referred cancer patients there only as long as Silver was funneling him state money for research, new court papers claim.

«We only looked at cancer.

«Several major advances in recent years have been good news for multiple myeloma patients, but those new drugs only target terminally differentiated cancer cells and thus can only reduce the bulk of the tumor,» said Jamieson, who is also deputy director of the Sanford Stem Cell Clinical Center, director of the CIRM Alpha Stem Cell Clinic at UC San Diego and director of stem cell research at Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego Hcancer cells and thus can only reduce the bulk of the tumor,» said Jamieson, who is also deputy director of the Sanford Stem Cell Clinical Center, director of the CIRM Alpha Stem Cell Clinic at UC San Diego and director of stem cell research at Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego HCancer Center at UC San Diego Health.

«This is the first comprehensive study of its kind and shows the potential to not only reduce the global cancer burden, but also guide clinical decision - making with regard to childhood vaccinations,» said Marc T. Goodman, PhD, MPH, senior author of the study and director of Cancer Prevention and Genetics at the Cedars - Sinai Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Instcancer burden, but also guide clinical decision - making with regard to childhood vaccinations,» said Marc T. Goodman, PhD, MPH, senior author of the study and director of Cancer Prevention and Genetics at the Cedars - Sinai Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer InstCancer Prevention and Genetics at the Cedars - Sinai Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer InstCancer Institute.

A joint venture involving ProCure, a New Jersey private - equity operator of three proton centers, has struggled to meet targets; at one center, which opened to widespread publicity and investor excitement in 2012, only one - fourth of all patients are coming for prostate cancer treatment, well below the expected 80 percent.

If the process applies to people, genes may not be the only reason why a family history of breast cancer puts a woman at risk.

During cancer treatments, patients should pay attention not only to their breast health, but also to their general health, including their heart, said Dr. Mehta, who is director of the Women's Cardiovascular Health Program and an associate professor of medicine at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio.

«A single Pap test does not provide good protection against cancer, but repeat testing every three years has been shown to effectively reduce cancer rates, and it is the only method for which long term data are available,» explained co-author Rebecca Perkins, MD, MSc, assistant professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at BUSM and a gynecologist at BMC.

Grasping at a final possible alternative to the inconvenient notion that smoking could have a healthful benefit, experts theorized that the association was due only to smokers dying young of cancer, heart disease and lung disease before the age when they might otherwise have developed Parkinson's.

«This study may have implications not only for breast cancer, but for many metastatic cancers,» said Ravi Thadhani, MD, MPH, vice dean, Research and Graduate Research Education, at Cedars - Sinai.

Previous trials of retinoids against breast cancer have been conducted only after anti-estrogen treatments, at which point, «we were already getting expansion of cancer stem cells — treating with a retinoid after that was already too late,» Fettig says.

Future research should not only compare how embryonic stem cells, iPS cells and adult stem cells differentiate, but focus on what effects the niche in which these cells will reside, when transplanted, will have on their characteristics, including tendencies to mutate into cancer cells, notes cell and stem cell biologist Olga Genbacev at the University of California, San Francisco, (U.C.S.F.) School of Medicine.

Researchers at Dana - Farber / Boston Children's Cancer and Blood Disorders Center report promising outcomes from a clinical trial with patients with a rare form of bone marrow failure who received a hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) after pre-treatment with immunosuppressive drugs only.

At first it was thought that only functioned as cellular debris warehouses but in recent years has been that could have an important role as a messenger between cells of the body and now many groups focus their research on the role that could be played exosomes in various diseases, including cancer.

«There's only so much we can gain in terms of disease - free longevity by curing individual diseases like cancer and Alzheimer's one at a time, but if we can address the issue of aging, then we could potentially delay and diminish them all at once.»

Until now, EGFR inhibitors have only been effective at treating the 10 to 15 percent of non-small cell lung cancers that have a variant of EGFR, but the two - drug combo could potentially work for all non-small cell lung cancers, explained Dr. John Minna, Director of the Hamon Center for Therapeutic Oncology Research and Professor of Internal Medicine and Pharmacology.

«Prostate cancers only kill men after they have spread or «metastasised» from the prostate,» says project leader Dr Luke Selth, Senior Research Fellow at the University of Adelaide's Dame Roma Mitchell Cancer Research Laboratories and a member of the Freemasons Foundation Centre for Men's Health.