Sentences with phrase «percent of cancer survivors»

«Mindfulness meditation practices enable cancer survivors to better manage cancer - related cognitive impairment, reported by approximately 35 percent of cancer survivors who have completed treatment,» said Dr. Johns, who is a Regenstrief Institute investigator and assistant professor of medicine in the IU School of Medicine.

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A project that mined the genetic data of a group of survivors finds that 11.5 percent carry mutations that increase the risk of a subsequent cancer.

An estimated 18 percent of malignancies in the United States are secondary cancers that develop in cancer survivors.

The number of cancer survivors is projected to increase by 31 percent, to 20.3 million, by 2026.

Moreover, approximately 65 percent of breast cancer survivors are overweight or obese.

Only about 5 percent of respondents correctly answered all the questions about screening for breast, thyroid and cardiac health, and 72 percent of those who treated an adult survivor of childhood cancer had never seen a summary of their patients» cancer treatment.

With cure rates of childhood cancer topping 80 percent, the population of adult survivors who need tailored long - term care is burgeoning.

Whole genome sequencing of more than 3,000 long - term St. Jude childhood cancer survivors found that 12 percent carried mutations in one of 156 genes that are associated with an increased risk of cancer for survivors or their children.

Though they are more likely to protect themselves from the sun than people who have not had cancer, only 54 percent of survivors wear sunscreen on average, according to a recent study.

It puts me in a privileged population — a 2013 German study of recent cancer survivors found that more than 67 percent expressed a fear of recurrence.

Researchers examined the presence of cardiovascular risk factors and found that physical inactivity among cancer survivors was linked with a 70 percent increased risk for cardiovascular risk factor clustering.