Sentences with phrase «than cancer of»

Colon cancer, for example, is far more common than cancer of the duodenum, the first stretch of the small intestine.

Not exact matches

Drugmaker Merck reported a better - than - expected first - quarter profit on Tuesday, helped by a more than 150 percent rise in sales of cancer drug Keytruda.

The senator from Arizona returned Monday to Washington, DC, less than a week after being diagnosed with an aggressive form of brain cancer and less than two weeks after he had brain surgery.

There are more than 80 immune - related cancer therapies currently in clinical trials, fueled by many billions of dollars in pharmaceutical investment from the likes of Bristol - Myers Squibb bmy, Merck mrk, Pfizer pfe, and dozens of biotechs.

A panel of three entrepreneurs discussed the relationship between purpose and profitability in greater depth: Pocket Sun, who, as founding partner of female - focused VC firm SoGal Ventures, has a purpose of «building an empire for millennial women to invest in startups»; Eileen Gittins, a serial entrepreneur who founded book self - publishing firm Blurb and now runs Bossygrl, a mobile app meant to introduce Gen Z girls to entrepreneurship by helping them launch micro-businesses; and Cathie Reid, co-founder and current digital advisor to Icon Group, an Australian cancer - care company with annual revenue of more than $ 1.5 billion.

A large, long - term study of male smokers found that those who regularly took Vitamin A were more likely to get lung cancer than those who didn't.

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.

The Center for Human Sleep Science found that getting less than seven hours of sleep a nigh can be linked to medical ailments like cancer, obesity and poor mental health.

Because it makes up more than 13 % of all new cancers and nearly 27 % of all cancer deaths in the U.S. Just 17.7 % of diagnosed patients are still alive five years out from their diagnosis.

Martin Shkreli, unaffectionately known as the «pharma bro» — and infamous for his decision to hike the list price of Daraprim, a drug used by HIV / AIDS and cancer patients to combat infections, by more than 5,000 % in 2015 under his former company Turing Pharmaceuticals — was convicted on three criminal securities fraud and conspiracy charges by a Brooklyn jury on Friday.

• Grail, a life sciences company focused on early cancer detection that operates as a subsidiary of Illumina Inc. (Nasdaq: ILMN), raised more than $ 900 million in Series B funding.

This feat is possible because cancer cells emit a different kind of metabolic waste than healthy cells.

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.

But again, the FDA says the levels of the chemical in foods like fries or crackers are much lower than acrylamide levels linked to cancer in animal studies.

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.

But in medicine, impressive technology is little more than a parlor trick if it doesn't benefit patients — like James (who asked to keep his last name private), a 42 - year - old colon cancer patient who had part of his large intestine removed by Sullivan a few months ago.

But the 23rd annual Sohn Investment Conference — held in memory of Ira Sohn, and benefiting pediatric cancer research and treatment — had a larger - than - usual contingent of technology investors, and not everyone agreed with Gundlach's stance.

When lung cancer claimed Nathalie Estime's husband, Roger Ndeffo, in 2007, she lost more than her life partner — she lost her sense of purpose.

She chose that step because she had been tested and knew she possessed those gene mutations, which put her risk of developing breast cancer at greater than 80 %.

In the last of those years, the reporters discovered, the federal government actually spent more on urine - based drug tests than it did on «the four most recommended cancer screenings combined.»

The study, just published in Science, showed that the creation of what the researchers are calling microtumors can help predict drug effectiveness in cancer patients better than the current standard method of testing the drugs on rodents.

That's not just because of Opdivo's failure — last month, Keytruda was shown to be better than standard chemotherapy in untreated advanced lung cancer patients with high levels of the PD - L1 protein, both stopping cancer progression and extending patients» lives.

The agency said that regular consumption of beverages hotter than 149 degrees Fahrenheit was «probably carcinogenic» based on a small number of studies showing a link between the practice and esophageal cancer.

In a clinical trial of more than 600 participants, Empliciti, when used with cancer drug Revlimid and steroid dexamethasone was better at delaying when the cancer worsened than just the two drugs alone.

For example, employees will be more loyal, on average, to an organization with a goal to eradicate cancer than an organization with a goal of taking market share from competitors.

By then, the economic burden of brain health will be higher than those of cancer, diabetes and respiratory conditions combined.

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.

We managed to stop putting a hole in the ozone layer by phasing out the chemicals that were causing it (cholofluorocarbons) and, as a result, the hole is closing and there are millions fewer cases of skin cancer than there would otherwise have been.

Smoking is one of the single biggest risk factors for lung cancer, which makes up more than 13 % of all new cancer diagnoses and more than one in four cancer deaths in the U.S.

They suggest most women in their 40s should not have routine mammograms because the tests may cause more harm than good because of false positive results (follow - up testing proves negative for cancer).

The IARC reached its conclusion after assessing more than 800 studies across the globe about the consumption of red meat and its ties to cancer.

The move follows a May 2015 lawsuit against four sham charities, including Cancer Fund of America and Cancer Support Services, that alleged that cumulatively, the four organizations scammed donors out of more than $ 187 million.

Two phony cancer charities that swindled donors out of more than $ 75 million will be dissolved, officials said Wednesday.

He's eating plenty more than the equivalent of a single hot dog each day, and, based on this research, is more likely to develop one of these two cancer types over his lifetime than you or Susie.

The IARC evaluates substances suspected of causing cancer in humans, and arrives at its classifications by convening a working group of international experts to review and assess the strength and quality of the evidence — in this case, more than 800 studies.

How can businesses offer employees discounted access to services, i.e., rather than pay for a set kind of insurance, can they offer a menu of different options for employees, such as pet insurance, a specific kind of medical insurance (like cancer insurance) or any other possibilities?

While declining sales may be bad for soft drink companies, they're good for a public health system straining under an obesity epidemic posing as much or more of a threat than cancer.

For one, the treatments would have to treat more types of cancer than the one Kymriah was approved for on Wednesday.

In the case of Scottish salmon, they recommended that those who wish to avoid cancer - causing chemicals have no more than three farmed - salmon meals a year.

This week, after more than three months of searching, Cancer Treatment Centers of America (CTCA) announced that IT industry leader Kristin Darby, CPA, MBA, will join the company as its Chief Information Officer.

A glut of liquid biopsy companies have emerged from universities and elsewhere in recent years to catch cancer by relying on a patient's DNA, rather than having to extract their tissue.

HERERA: Merck (NYSE: MRK) was one of the best performing stocks on the blue chip Dow index today, after the drug company «s new type of lung cancer drug performed better than expected in a highly anticipated clinical trial.

The drug already has undergone initial testing in more than 550 patients with multiple types of cancer.

Executives at SAP and Nvidia said they hoped genetic screening might ultimately help prevent at least a few late - stage cancers, the kinds of life - threatening illnesses that can debilitate employees and cost companies with self - funded health plans more than $ 1 million in medical fees.

«There is less of a clear road to market than for a heart drug or a cancer drug,» Newman said.

It is hoped this means of treating cancer will be more successful and result in far less debilitating side effects than chemotherapy.

With the victims of lung cancer we have the good sense to respond at the point of human suffering rather than the point of moral judgment.

Looking at sixty - seven recent drug discovery projects based on preclinical cancer biology research, they found that in more than 75 percent of cases the published data did not match up with their in - house attempts to replicate.

spent on the worship od imaginary dieties... was spent on a cure for cancer, heart disease and the «education of the young... and a cure for war... but no your gods are more important than the human race.