Sentences with phrase «virus than a cancer»

I would argue that it is more like a virus than a cancer.

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Cancer is more complex to treat with a vaccine than viruses, like the measles, mumps or flu, and varies according to patient.

Rather than pack up and go home, he went for the last option available — a master's degree in cancer research — and picked a cancer lab that also studied viruses, at the University's Institute of Hematology.

The virus is responsible for nearly all cases of cervical cancer, which each year kills more than 4,000 American women — half of whom are estimated to live in the South.

Mutations in the genes that defend the body against cancer - related viruses and other infections may play a larger role in breast cancer than previously thought, according to a study at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Collectively, these viruses have been linked to more than 20 different types of cancers.

MANY millions more people than previously thought might have been given polio vaccine contaminated with a monkey virus linked to cancer.

Herpes virus proteins are more «spaghetti - like» than previously thought, which provides a vital clue in the search for an efficient treatment against a type of herpes which causes a form of cancer known as Kaposi's sarcoma.

A team of researchers has identified a novel mutation in the hepatitis B virus (HBV) in Korea that appears only in men and could help explain why HBV - infected men are roughly five times more likely than HBV - infected women to develop liver cancer.

The problem with viruses that typically cause cancer, though, is that they tend hide out of reach — inside of rather than on the surface of cells.

At a time when gene therapy has been revived as a potent form of cancer treatment, a new approach would use nanoparticles, rather than viruses, to deliver strands of DNA or RNA to tumors.

The hepatitis B virus, which chronically infects more than 240 million people worldwide, causes cirrhosis and is the world's leading cause of liver cancer.

The NYT reports today that «A new DNA test for the virus that causes cervical cancer does so much better than current methods that some gynecologists hope it will eventually replace the Pap smear in wealthy countries and cruder tests

A study conducted by the World Health Organization found that women who carry the human papilloma virus (HPV) and who have taken the Pill for five to nine years are nearly three times more likely than non-Pill users to develop cervical cancer.7 (HPV affects a third of all women in their twenties.)

More than 70 % of cervical cancer cases can be attributed to two types of the virus, HPV - 16 and HPV - 18, often referred to as high - risk HPV types.

The chronically stressed mice had decreased immune function and experienced tumor development significantly earlier than the non-stressed mice.16 Other mouse studies of ovarian cancer showed that chronic stress resulted in increased cancer growth as well as increased angiogenesis, the process with which cancer forms new blood vessels to feed itself nutrients for growth and metastases.17 Chronic stress has also been shown to decrease our body's ability to mount an attack against foreign invaders, including viruses.18 As we know that several viruses can cause cancer (HPV and cervical cancer, and EBV and nasopharyngeal cancer), we can extrapolate that any decrease in immune function could increase cancer risk.

Most of us are slightly more acidic than we should be, which makes us more vulnerable to viruses and bacterial infection, as well as prone to more serious conditions like cancer and auto - immune disease.

So rather than experiencing frank viral diseases such as the «flu, measles, mumps and rubella (and, in the case of dogs, parvovirus and distemper), we are allowing the viruses to win anyway — but with cancer, leukaemia and other inflammatory or autoimmune (self - attacking) diseases taking their place.

More money is being poured into secutity than research on Aids / Clean Energy / Cancer / dangerous viruses etc..

Among other benefits, breastfeeding: stimulates the release of the hormone oxytocin in the mother's body promoting bonding between mother and baby; satisfies baby's emotional needs; provides superior nutrition; helps prevent maternal breast cancer, endometrial cancer, ovarian cancer and osteoporosis; helps prevent future breast cancer in infant girls; promotes higher infant IQ; helps pass baby's meconium; provides immunization against disease; is more digestible than formula; aids in mother's post-partum physical recovery; helps protect the infant from Crohn's disease, juvenile diabetes, allergies, asthma, SIDS, hemophilus b. virus, cardopulmonary distress, ulcerative colitis, necrotizing enterocolitis, and other medical problems; enhances vaccine effectiveness, and is a natural contraceptive.