cancer death Articles
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Improved health from Chernobyl
High and low dose irradiation elicit opposite results. Irrefutable evidence from three arenas provides ample evidence that low-dose irradiation improves health: 1) generations living in high levels of ambient radiation, 2) accidentally exposed nuclear workers, 3) Japanese atomic bomb victims. Since most exposures to ionising radiation at Chernobyl were less than 20 cGy, the concept predicts that ...
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Ionising radiation and the health of nuclear industry workers
The data on deaths from all causes and cancers among workers in the nuclear industry are considered in the light of the data published by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) in 2007 (Vrijheid et al., 2007; Thierry-Chef et al., 2007; Cardis et al., 2007). The dose-effect relationship is assumed to be linear with an arbitrary sign of the slope. A zero effect of the dose is also ...
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Zanidatamab, a HER2-targeted bispecific antibody, in combination with docetaxel as first-line therapy for patients with advanced HER2-positive breast cancer: Preliminary results from a Phase 1b/2 study (American Society of Clinical Oncology)
Worldwide, breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer and the leading cause of cancer deaths in women, with over 650,000 deaths in 2020.1,2 Human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)-targeted agents have improved outcomes in HER2-positive breast cancer, but most patients in first-line therapy do not respond to current therapies, eventually relapse or develop ...
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Re-examining the health effects of radiation and its protection
The health effects of radiation from atomic explosions in Japan were completely different from those due to radiation from the Co-60 contaminated apartments in Taiwan. The sudden exposure to acute radiation in extremely high doses killed Japanese people, and harmed the survivors in lower doses as shown by increased cancer mortality, especially the leukemia based on the LNT model. The chronic ...
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Overview Of SFA Therapeutics
SFA Therapeutics’ CEO Dr Ira Spector presents an overview of the company and its platform technology SFA Overview Presentation on YouTube Introduction to SFA Liver Disease and Oncology Programs. SFA Oncology More information here We received US Patent 10,143,669B2; to prevent Hepatitis B progression to HCC, a liver cancer that affects 400 million patients and causes 1 million cancer ...
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Prediction of chemotherapeutic response in ovarian cancer with DNA microarray expression profiling
Abstract Ovarian carcinoma is a leading cause of gynecologic cancer death in women. Despite treatment, a large number of women with ovarian cancer eventually relapse and die of the disease. Hence, recurrent ovarian cancer continues to be a therapeutic dilemma, possibly a result of the emergence of drug resistance during relapse. Recent advances in expression genomics enable global transcript ...
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Water- and wastewater-related disease and infection risks: what is an appropriate value for the maximum tolerable additional burden of disease?
The maximum additional burden of water- and wastewater-related disease of 10_6 disability-adjusted life year (DALY) loss per person per year (pppy), used in the WHO Drinking-water Quality Guidelines and the WHO Guidelines for Wastewater Use in Agriculture, is based on US EPA's acceptance of a 70-year lifetime waterborne cancer risk of 10_5 per person, equivalent to an annual risk of 1.4×10_7 per ...
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Non-cancer disease mortality and risk analysis among medical X-ray workers in China
The non-cancer disease mortality (1950-1995) among 27 011 medical diagnostic X-ray workers was compared to that of 25 782 other medical specialists employed between 1950 and 1980 to provide evidence of human non-cancer disease death produced by protracted and fractionated exposure to ionising radiation and assess the resultant non-cancer disease death risk. The total non-cancer disease mortality ...
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Cancer incidence in areas with elevated levels of natural radiation
It has been reported that on reaching a certain level of cell damage the production of repair enzymes is triggered which decreases the chromosome aberrations. If this happens, prolonged exposure to high levels of natural radiation in areas with elevated levels of background radiation could decrease the frequency of chromosome aberrations. Recent epidemiological studies indicated that there is an ...
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Health and Safety in Heavy Industries
Many vapours and gases found in heavy industries pose an explosion risk. For any gas to combust it must reach its lower explosive limit (LELs). Lower explosive limits have been well established for 100s of chemicals and generally vapours from VOCs have relatively low explosion limits. For example, methane and hydrogen have LELs of 50,000 ppm and 40,000 ppm respectively whereas benzene has ...
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New Breast Imaging Technology: The Koning Difference
Revolutionizing breast cancer detection Breast cancer is the most diagnosed cancer in women in the United States and the second leading cause of cancer death in American women.1 It is also treatable if detected early enough. While there are various cancer detection modalities available, current breast imaging devices fail to expose as much as 35% of breast cancers and that number increases to ...
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Huateng Pharma Supplies Some Intermediates of CDK4/6 Inhibitors for Treatment of Advanced Breast Cancer
Breast cancer is the most frequent cancer among women, impacting 2.1 million women each year, and also causes the greatest number of cancer-related deaths among women. In 2018, it is estimated that 627,000 women died from breast cancer – that is approximately 15% of all cancer deaths among women. While breast cancer rates are higher among women in more developed regions, rates are ...
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The Role of Probiotics in Cancer Prevention Receives Increasing Attention
Liver cancer is the fifth most common cancer in the world and the third leading cause of cancer deaths. A healthy diet and lifestyle are the key to preventing various diseases. In recent years, probiotics, as part of a healthy diet, have received increasing attention for their role in cancer prevention and treatment, including liver cancer. Do probiotics have the potential to prevent liver ...
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Through a Simple Blood Test, Our Body’s Gut Bacteria Can Help Detect Early-stage Colorectal Cancer
Analysis of microbiome signatures in plasma for early CRC detection Colorectal cancer (CRC) represents the 3rd leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the United States. Patients diagnosed with distant stage of the disease represent 22% of all CRC cases and have 15% 5-years survival rates, in contrast to 91% 5-years survival rate of patients with localized disease at diagnosis, indicating how ...
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Movember Together: How Paige, University of Oxford, and Prostate Cancer UK Are Working to Change the Prostate Cancer Experience
Movember is an annual initiative where men from around the globe grow mustaches to raise awareness for men’s health causes, including mental health and suicide prevention, testicular cancer, and prostate cancer. Through events, fundraising, and using mustaches as a light-hearted starting point for important conversations, the movement supports men in taking charge of their health to live ...
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Researchers Prepared New Tools for the Production of Exosome Drug Carriers
Recently, Yang Hui, a researcher at Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, developed a nanofluidic chip technology to achieve high-throughput preparation of exosome drug carriers and experimentally verify the anti-tumor effect of novel exosome drug carriers. Exosomes are nanoscale particles that can be secreted into the extracellular space or body fluids by ...
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Modified bacteria produce tetanus toxin, which is utilized to treat fatal pancreatic cancer
Pancreatic cancer is a highly malignant tumor of the digestive tract that is difficult to diagnose and treat, and the morbidity and mortality rates have risen dramatically in recent years. Pancreatic cancer is at an advanced stage when diagnosed when cancer cells have spread and are hard to control. The most frequent pancreatic cancer is pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC), accounting for ...
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Sources, Functions and Therapeutic Applications of Bromelain
Bromelain is closely related to pineapple. Chemist Vicente Marcano first discovered bromelain in pineapple in 1891, and then another chemist, Russell Henry Chittenden, extracted bromelain from pineapple fruit, which was then called "proteolytic enzyme in pineapple juice". Scientists have found that ripe pineapple stems have higher levels of bromelain. Many tropical fruits, such as papaya, mango, ...
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Myths vs Facts: HPV and Cervical Cancer
Cervical cancer is the second most common cancer affecting and causing deaths among women in India. Cervical cancer is caused by the Human Papilloma Virus or HPV. The lower part of the uterus known as Cervix is affected due to HPV infection. This cancer develops very slowly and most of the times is asymptomatic during the development stage. HPV infection is a sexually transmitted infection (STI) ...
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Discovery of Bispecific Antibodies and Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors That Kill Glioblastoma Cells and Melanoma Cells, and Block the Metastasis of Malignant Melanoma Cells to the Lung by Over 90%
Ocean Biomedical will be a wholly owned subsidiary of Aesther Healthcare Acquisition Corp. and will change its name to Ocean Biomedical, Inc., expected to be listed on NASDAQ under the symbol, “OCEA”. PROVIDENCE, R.I. and NEW YORK, Sept. 06, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Ocean Biomedical and Aesther Healthcare Acquisition Corp. (“Aesther”) (NASDAQ: AEHA) ...
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