What is "cancers"

Usage examples of "cancers".

A certain percentage of cancers will recur, but doctors cannot gauge which of their patients will be so stricken.

A 1998 landmark study found that the use of tamoxifen in such women, who have no cancer but a family history of cancer or precancerous lesions, reduces the rate of expected breast cancers by 45 percent.

This year alone, more than a million new diagnoses of major cancers will be made and about five hundred and fifty thousand Americans will die of cancer, an average of fifteen hundred a day.

The origin of most human cancers, the experts contended, would prove to be retroviruses as well, and hundreds of millions of dollars were poured into research to prove this assumption.

Some cancers require surgery, while others are best treated with radiation, chemotherapy, or some combination of all of them.

Blood-borne cancers such as leukemia are not like tumors in the usual sense.

A radical solution, which works for some cancers but not others, is to kill all the cells in your bone marrow and repopulate the remaining barren terrain with bone marrow transplanted from a suitable donor.

Studies have shown that the risk of developing certain cancers decreases when you eat ten or more tablespoons a week of tomato or spaghetti sauce.

Basal and squamous cell are very curable cancers that are usually treated by removal of the cancerous growth.

But the more dangerous cancers release chemicals that stimulate new blood vessels to grow into the tumor.

Most chemotherapy works by killing the rapidly growing cancers as they try to grow, but this also hurts normal cells.

This is especially true for cervical and liver cancers, as well as some lymphomas.

But the fact is, at end-stage cancer, there are actually cancer cells embedded in the heart quite frequently, which should not surprise us since cancers love energy-carrying blood.

It tended to strike men between the ages of 18 and 25 and was considered very treatable as cancers go, thanks to advances in chemotherapy, but early diagnosis and intervention were key.

The tests showed that I was stage three, with three different cancers in my body, the most malignant of which was choriocarcinoma, a very aggressive, blood-borne type that was difficult to arrest.