Sentences with phrase «reduces lung cancer deaths»

National Trial Lawyers Article, January 17, 2013: American Cancer Society Issues Controversial Guideline to Try to Reduce Lung Cancer Deaths.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

The risk of cardiovascular related illness and death is known to decrease after smoking cessation in patients with coronary heart disease, 40 reducing dramatically over the first three years, 41 but reducing the risk of developing lung cancer after smoking cessation generally takes longer.9 41 This review has found evidence that after lung cancer has been diagnosed, reductions in risk of developing a second primary or recurrence were associated with quitting within seven years, suggesting that, even at this stage, the prognostic outlook can be improved by smoking cessation.

Smoking cessation dramatically reduces the risk of disease, including lung diseases such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and lung cancer, as well as early death.

Scientists estimate deaths from lung cancer could be reduced by two to four percent, or about 5,000 deaths, by lowering radon levels in homes exceeding the EPA's action level.

This will reduce SO2 emissions — which cause premature deaths from diseases such as lung cancer and heart disease — from shipping by 85 % compared with today's levels.»

While the amount of wrongful death damages was reduced by the appellate court, the award is believed to be one of the largest in Louisiana for a victim of asbestos - related lung cancer.

In the latest study, published in The Lancet, researchers found the 20 - year risk of death was reduced by about 10 percent for prostate cancer, 30 percent for lung cancer, 40 percent for colorectal or bowel cancer and 60 percent for oesophageal cancer in those taking aspirin.