Sentences with phrase «percent of all lung cancer»

A lung cancer specialist, Wrangle said 75 percent of lung cancer patients unfortunately are diagnosed at an incurable stage.

(The K - Ras gene is mutated in 20 percent of lung cancer cases, and G12C is the most frequent mutation of K - Ras.)

Alice Shaw recalls a signal moment in 2004 — just as she was finishing her oncology fellowship at MIT — when scientists discovered that mutations in a gene for epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) were the culprits in about 10 to 15 percent of lung cancer patients.

Adenocarcinomas account for some 40 percent of all lung cancers diagnosed.

«Breast cancer driver, HER2, in 3 percent of lung cancers, study finds.»

In this study, the researchers focused on a type of non-small cell lung cancer called lung adenocarcinoma, which accounts for about 40 percent of lung cancers.

This type accounts for as much as 80 percent of all lung cancer cases.

A cancer - causing virus in sheep may shed light on a disease whose incidence is increasing and accounts for about 25 percent of all lung cancer cases.

Nonsmall cell lung cancers are the most common types of lung cancer, accounting for approximately 80 to 85 percent of lung cancer cases.

Small cell lung cancer (SCLC) accounts for 14 percent of all lung cancers and is often rapidly resistant to chemotherapy resulting in poor clinical outcomes.

Not exact matches

«We observed a 49 percent increased risk of lung cancer among subjects with the highest daily glycemic index,» author of new study says.

For example, one hundred percent of an apple's quercetin (an antioxidant that has been linked to lower inflammation levels as well as decreased risk of prostate and lung cancers) content is in its skin!

«We feel it'll be able to help kill cancer cells in 80 percent of breast cancer patients,» said Dr. Olson, who added that their antibody has the potential to help kill lung, colon, prostate and other cancer cells, too.

The median age was 66 and the majority of patients (88 percent) were treated for primary lung cancer.

Squamous non-small cell lung cancer accounts for 25 to 30 percent of all lung malignancies.

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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.

The strength of the association between smoking and lung cancer is even stronger, with smokers being 35 percent more likely than non-smokers to get lung cancer, but in terms of epidemiology, the 16 percent increased risk of skin cancer in ever - users of UV tanning remains strong.

The authors report that higher levels of physical activity compared to lower levels were associated with lower risks of 13 of 26 cancers: esophageal adenocarcinoma (42 percent lower risk); liver (27 percent lower risk); lung (26 percent lower risk); kidney (23 percent lower risk); gastric cardia (22 percent lower risk); endometrial (21 percent lower risk); myeloid leukemia (20 percent lower risk); myeloma (17 percent lower risk); colon (16 percent lower risk); head and neck (15 percent lower risk), rectal (13 percent lower risk); bladder (13 percent lower risk); and breast (10 percent lower risk).

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.

They also chose to study a type of K - Ras mutant called G12C (for Glycine - 12 to Cysteine), a K - Ras mutant prevalent in about seven percent of patients with lung cancer.

One of those genes, K - Ras, which was discovered nearly 30 years ago, is mutated in 30 percent of human tumors, including 90 percent of pancreatic cancers, 40 percent of colon cancers, and 20 percent of non-small cell lung cancers.

«First - line immunotherapy treatment can improve survival for subset of lung cancer patients: Results of phase III global clinical trial show that 75 percent of stage IV lung cancer patients with both complex tumor mutations and PDL - 1 positive status respond to nivolumab.»

Nevertheless, the survival rate for lung cancer is dismal: 80 percent of patients die within five years of diagnosis largely due to the disease's aggressive tendency to spread throughout the body.

Thirty - seven percent of 154 lung cancer surgery patients in a new study were smoking again within a year.

Randall Harris, a cancer epidemiologist at Ohio State University, has observed a 68 percent lower risk of lung cancer in heavy smokers who took aspirin regularly; women who took aspirin or ibuprofen for at least five years had a 40 percent lower risk of breast cancer.

Islam and colleagues found that among patients with localized lung cancer, those with one comorbidity had a 30 percent higher risk of mortality compared with those who had no comorbidity.

The researchers found there was a decline in the relative proportion of patients with lung cancer meeting the USPSTF criteria overall, from 57 percent in 1984 - 1990 to 43 percent in 2005 - 2011.

That group also had 66 percent higher odds of developing lung cancer, 39 percent higher odds of developing breast cancer, 55 percent higher odds of developing prostate cancer and 37 percent higher odds of developing colorectal cancer.

When comparing the cancer risk of EPIC participants with extremely high or extremely low immunoCRIT, the researchers found that if the value is strongly increased, the lung cancer risk rises by 100 percent, and the risk of colon cancer by approximately 60 percent.

«For about 80 percent of our patients with lung cancer, we don't have tests like [the one for] ALK to tell us what treatments will work best,» Shaw says.

This poor performance is sadly typical for lung cancer treatments: Most are effective for between 3 and 15 percent of patients.

But after a biopsy, he was stunned to discover he had late - stage lung cancer, a disease that kills 85 percent of patients within a year.

One trial exploring the effects of beta - carotene supplements showed that taking more than the recommended dosage increased the risk for developing both lung cancer and heart disease by 20 percent.

In EGFR - associated non-small cell lung cancer, mutation and amplification are found together about 80 percent of the time.

The Lung Cancer Mutation Consortium at the University of Colorado Cancer Center reports this week in the journal Cancer that 24 of 920 patients (3 percent) with advanced - stage lung cancer had mutations in the gene HLung Cancer Mutation Consortium at the University of Colorado Cancer Center reports this week in the journal Cancer that 24 of 920 patients (3 percent) with advanced - stage lung cancer had mutations in the geneCancer Mutation Consortium at the University of Colorado Cancer Center reports this week in the journal Cancer that 24 of 920 patients (3 percent) with advanced - stage lung cancer had mutations in the geneCancer Center reports this week in the journal Cancer that 24 of 920 patients (3 percent) with advanced - stage lung cancer had mutations in the geneCancer that 24 of 920 patients (3 percent) with advanced - stage lung cancer had mutations in the gene Hlung cancer had mutations in the genecancer had mutations in the gene HER2.

Recent research has shown that lung CT screening of smokers with smoking histories of at least 30 - pack years can lead to early detection of lung cancer and reduce deaths by 20 percent.

«Metastatic brain tumors — often from lung, breast or skin cancers — are the most commonly observed tumors within the brain and account for about 40 percent of advanced melanoma metastases.

«This technology [stereotactic body radiation] has been used successfully in both primary and metastatic lung and liver cancers, notably for patients who could not otherwise undergo surgery, with local control rates in excess of 90 percent» says Gan.

«Metastatic brain tumors — often from lung, breast or skin cancers — are the most commonly observed tumors within the brain and account for about 30 percent of advanced breast cancer metastases,» says Khalid Shah, MS, PhD, director of the Molecular Neurotherapy and Imaging Laboratory in the MGH Departments of Radiology and Neurology, who led the study.

Among others, RET plays a role in around 50 percent of medullary thyroid cancers, 20 percent of papillary thyroid cancers, and up to two percent of non-small cell lung cancers.

«Our study reported an overall response rate of 37 percent for RET - driven cancers, with responses of 45 percent for non-small cell lung cancer and 32 percent for medullary thyroid.»

An anti-PD-1 antibody developed by Bristol - Myers Squibb generates excitement with results from a phase I trial showing that, among 236 patients with various types of cancer, the treatment shrank tumors in 28 percent of melanoma patients, 30 percent of patients with kidney cancer, and 18 percent of patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer.

The findings may give hope to the nearly 30 percent of patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) whose tumors lack LKB1 (also called STK11).

«In 100 percent of small - cell lung cancers, there is a deletion in this region of chromosome 3, very often including the HYAL2 gene,» he said.

«Lung cancer is one of most lethal cancers and prognosis for patients is often poor, with only about 15 percent surviving more than 5 years,» says Inder Verma, Salk's American Cancer Society Professor of Molecular Biology and lead author of the cancer is one of most lethal cancers and prognosis for patients is often poor, with only about 15 percent surviving more than 5 years,» says Inder Verma, Salk's American Cancer Society Professor of Molecular Biology and lead author of the Cancer Society Professor of Molecular Biology and lead author of the paper.

«We observed a 49 percent increased risk of lung cancer among subjects with the highest daily GI compared to those with the lowest daily GI,» says senior author Xifeng Wu.

Participants with less than 12 years of education in the highest GI group were 77 percent more at risk of developing lung cancer than those in the lowest GI group.

NSCLC is the most common types of lung cancer, accounting for approximately 85 percent of cases.

Testing the system with lung cancer cells, the researchers showed that the ligand - guided protein cages selectively penetrated and killed more than 70 percent of the cancer cells.