Intel dominates those huge markets but they are slow growing even in good times.
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Around 30% of cancers detected in the trial were slow growing, and did not require urgent treatment.
Although many cases are aggressive, in some others the cancer is slow growing, and may never cause clinical illness.
Since some prostrate cancers are slow growing, we might be able to ignore them, and live until something else gets us.
However, Mr Neate stressed that the study had confirmed that a PSA test could not distinguish between aggressive and slow growing forms of prostate cancer.
There is good chance that growth industries will come back into favor this decade given the slow growing global economy and less opportunities for cyclical industries.
Cancer specialists know that because prostate cancer is usually a slow growing disease, many men are likely to die from other causes before they would die from prostate cancer.
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If the economy is either extremely slow growing or if it takes a turn for the worse, these industries could be some of the first to feel the effect.
Orthopedics isn't exactly slow growing: Companies like Warsaw, Ind.
Food for thought: Wolf pointed out that China (20%) and India (8%) were both still only small fractions of the GDP of the U.S. In other words, the emerging economies are fast growing midgets versus the slow growing giant.
By contrast, prostate and breast cancers are often quite slow-growing, so slow in fact that many experts assert that many of these cancers are best left to their own devices.
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Inflation tends to be higher in fast-growing emerging economies than in slow-growing rich ones.
Moreover, to save one patient from a fast-growing lethal prostate cancer, doctors have to subject dozens of patients with slow-growing cancers to debilitating and painful surgery.
Campaigners, with the support of marine scientists, have repeatedly tried to persuade countries to agree to an international ban, arguing that the indiscriminate nature of bottom-trawling is causing irreversible damage to coral reefs and slow-growing fish species, which can take decades to reach maturity and are therefore slow to replenish their numbers.
They can spot a slow-growing disease you might be better off not knowing about.
The last thing it needed was for the slow-growing CropScience business to detract attention from its drugs.
Wall Street worries that HP and Compaq won't find enough cost cuts in their slow-growing PC businesses.
Generally speaking, the insurance industry is expected to slow-growing like its banking counterparts.
Other caffeinated beverages also seemed to reduce the risk of this slow-growing cancer.
When the general level of yields is low, as it is in slow-growing Europe, there is less room to differentiate.
Cancer experts increasingly question the need to treat certain slow-growing cancers that are not causing symptoms prostate cancer in particular.
The timbila are finely manufactured and tuned wooden instruments made from the highly resonant wood of the slow-growing mwenje (sneezewort) tree.
It could be that screening is detecting more oestrogen-receptor positive cancers because they are slow-growing and may be detected before symptoms appear.
Furthermore, about two-thirds of men who get prostate cancer have a slow-growing "indolent" form of the disease that will not kill them.
Dr. KEN CASTRO (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention): Tuberculosis is a very slow-growing organism and that adds a layer of complexity.
In the slow-growing U.S. PC market, almost every dollar in new sales for Dell will come at the expense of a competitor.
As agriculture is inherently more slow-growing (3% annually this decade) than industry or services, this will help boost India's overall growth rate.
But her computer model predicts that some slow-growing tumors could be treated just as well with less-frequent radiation, sparing patients bad side effects.
Ford is hardly the only company scuffling in the slow-growing eurozone.
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