Sentences with phrase «people than all cancers»

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The status quo for hundreds of thousands of people, meanwhile, is untenable: More than 333,000 Americans will be diagnosed this year in any of four cancer types in which the five - year survival rate remains lower than 20 %, and in all, nearly 600,000 U.S. deaths are expected from cancer in 2016.

They found that the people who took vitamins did not live longer or have fewer cases of heart disease or cancer than people who did not take them.

Your chances of surviving cardiac arrest — which can strike in healthy people, and kills more Americans each year than Alzheimer's, breast cancer, cervical cancer, colorectal cancer, diabetes, HIV, car crashes, prostate cancer, and suicides combined — vary immensely based on your zip code.

Last year, the CDC found that U.S. life expectancy had actually dropped for the first time in more than two decades to an average of 78.8 years and that every major leading cause of death other than cancer was killing more people.

More than 800 of these people were found to have invasive lung cancers over the study's course, and the risk seemed to be especially associated with men who took discrete supplements with vitamin B6 or B12.

even cancer and people like hitler (yeah, yeah, free - will - his victims» free will was obviously less important to god than hitler's).

More than 20 million people in the U.S. alone have HPV, a sexually transmitted infection that can and has lead to sometimes fatal cervical cancer.

I'm also an extraordinarily hateful person, and I want everyone less intelligent than me to die of pancreatic cancer.

National self - deceit is no less hazardous than cancer symptoms in a person who decides to ignore the troubling symptoms rather than to receive appropriate treatment.

And if that is the case than obviously «god's plan» for some people is to be born and get cancer.

They found that the Kuna people had a significantly lower incidence of cardiovascular disease and cancer than people living on the mainland who did not drink cacao.

According to the American Heart Association, SCA claims the lives of over 250,000 people die each year, more than all forms of cancer combined.

There are ten things a community should know to prevent sudden cardiac death, which kills an estimated 350,000 people in the United States each year, more than all forms of cancer.

Naturopathic quackery kills people who earnestly believe that a healthy diet is a better option for a cancer cure than surgery or medication.

Telling people you have cancer is almost worse than having cancer because the word «cancer» strikes a particular type of fear in people's hearts.

A morbidly obese person can expect to live nine years less than the rest of us, due to a range of conditions, including type - 2 diabetes, cardiovascular problems, some cancers, hypertension and premature death.

Annually, more than 1 million people die prematurely from tobacco - induced diseases such as lung cancer and cardiovascular diseases.

Such a tax extends much further than it might initially appear too; for example, if someone discovered a universal cure for all cancers which made hundreds of thousands of working people redundant, should that be taxed too?

Federal prosecutors allege Silver reaped more than $ 3 million from legal settlements and verdicts won by the Weitz & Luxenberg law firm in Manhattan on behalf of people suffering from mesothelioma, a deadly cancer.

Except it's hard to think of many people more vulnerable than those suffering from Parkinson's, or cancer, or mental health problems.

Akeredolu who led a delegation of Breast Cancer Association of Nigeria (BRECAN) to visit the Lagos state Governor, Mr. Akinwumi Ambode, said rather than seeking medical help such people go from one prayer house to the other for solution to their problem.

More than 40 people joined Dutchess County Executive Marcus J. Molinaro and City of Poughkeepsie Mayor John Tkazyik to support Miles of Hope's «preview» walk around the City of Poughkeepsie today to spotlight the upcoming 10th Annual Community Walk for Breast Cancer on September 30th, Miles of Hope's flagship fundraiser.

Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma is the seventh most common form of cancer, affecting more than 8,600 people a year.

«I've never met more dedicated people than the thousands of cancer specialists I've gotten to know and speak with, but they do not share well,» he said.

When diseases like cancer and AIDS are impacting millions of people each year and rare but deadly infections like Ebola are moving faster than treatment, the race to make effective drugs becomes a sprint.

AN EXTRA copy of a gene on chromosome 21 may explain why people with Down's syndrome are less likely to get breast and lung cancer than the rest of the population.

RADIATION therapy to treat cancer is more effective in some people than others.

Lung cancer is the deadliest cancer worldwide and The American Lung Association estimates more than 158,000 people in the United States will die from the disease this year alone.

In a long - awaited move designed to protect people from cancer, California on Thursday proposed a new health goal for chromium 6 in drinking water that is thousands of times lower than the amount contaminating some water supplies.

If similar genes are found in people, drugs that mimic their protective effects could be a better strategy against cancer and ageing than simply mopping up all free radicals (PLoS Genetics, DOI: 10.1371 / journal.pgen.1000488).

Bile duct cancer is a rare cancer that occurs mostly in people older than age 50.

«I have worked with people who have cancer and depression, and more than one of them has said, «If I had to choose one of those two diseases, I'd go for the cancer.»»

It is estimated that more than 158,000 people will die from lung cancer in the United States this year.

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.

For the 5 million people living in less contaminated areas of Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus, radiation from the meltdown is expected to increase cancer rates less than 1 percent.

The 0.06 ppb was calculated by determining the amount, based on the new animal data, that might cause no more than one cancer among every one million people exposed for a lifetime.

In a head - to - head clinical trial comparing standard chemotherapy with the immunotherapy drug nivolumab, researchers found that people with squamous - non-small cell lung cancer who received nivolumab lived, on average, 3.2 months longer than those receiving chemotherapy.

We know that they are under stress when they are fighting cancer or other diseases, so I wondered whether anything measureable could be seen if we put them under further stress with UVA light.We found that people with cancer have DNA which is more easily damaged by ultraviolet light than other people, so the test shows the sensitivity to damage of all the DNA — the genome — in a cell.»

But Blaser told New Scientist: «More than 90 per cent of people with H. pylori never get ulcers or stomach cancer and anyway these diseases only occur after reproductive age, so they do not effect natural selection,»

More people die of lung cancer each year than breast, colon, and prostate cancers combined.

People who had cancer within the past six months were seven times more likely to develop GBS after surgery than those who did not have cancer.

Each year in the U.S., nearly 46,000 people are diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, and more than 39,000 patients die, making it the fourth leading cause of cancer death.

«This peptide is exciting in the sense that it provides a new alternative for treating these infections, which are predicted to kill more people annually than any other cause of death in our society, including cancer.»

Although more people are living or living longer with cancer than in years past, that is still not truly curing cancer.

Schwartz says the killing power of jumpy temperature swings is greater than that of AIDS, and comparable to diseases such as liver cancer, which kills about 25,000 people in the United States each year.

It's estimated that more than 53,000 people in the U.S. will be diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2016.

«This greater than expected survival in older patients selected for operative therapy is noteworthy,» said Dr. Fernandez, «especially considering that the prevalence of lung cancer is expected to increase as the population continues to grow older and more people survive into old age.»

Dr. Mehnert noted that it was surprising that patients with a more treatable cancer, such as breast cancer, experienced more distress than people with cancers that are more challenging to treat, such as stomach and pancreatic cancers, and that more research is needed to interpret these findings.

Annually, about 40,000 people in the United States, and more than 300,000 around the world die of this form of cancer.

In the largest study of its kind, people who ate a daily handful of nuts were 20 percent less likely to die from any cause over a 30 - year period than were those who didn't consume nuts, say scientists from Dana - Farber Cancer Institute, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and the Harvard School of Public Health.