Sentences with phrase «worldwide deaths from cancer»
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Increasing breastfeeding worldwide could prevent over 800000 child deaths and 20000 deaths from breast cancer every year.
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Increasing breastfeeding to near - universal levels for infants and young children could save over 800,000 children's lives a year worldwide, equivalent to 13 % of all deaths in children under two, and prevent an extra 20,000 deaths from breast cancer every year.
Approximately 175000 cancer cases are diagnosed annually in children younger than age 15 years worldwide, 1 with an annual increase of around 0.9 % in incidence rate in the developed world, only partly explained by improved diagnosis and reporting.1, 2 Childhood cancer is rare and its survival rate has increased significantly over the years owing to advancement in treatment technologies; however, it is still a leading cause of death among children and adolescents in developed countries, ranking second among children aged 1 to 14 years in the United States, surpassed only by accidents.1, 3 Childhood cancer is also emerging as a major cause of death in the last few years in Asia, Central and South America, Northwest Africa, and the Middle East, where death rates from preventable communicable diseases are declining.2
«About 900,000 people die every year worldwide from cirrhosis,» Artandi said, «and liver cancer is the fifth - leading cause of cancer death in the United States.
Of 4.3 million deaths each year worldwide from cancer, about 70 per cent are in the developing world.
In a collaborative study, researchers from Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, BGI, Shantou University Medical College and other institutions identified important alterations of tumor - associated genes and tumorigenic pathways in esophageal squamous cell cancer (ESCC), one of the leading cause of cancer death worldwide.
Abstract: Prostate cancer is the second most common cancer in men and the fifth leading cause of death from cancer in men worldwide, according to 2012 numbers.