That's because prostate tumors tend to grow so slowly that other health problems often kill a patient first.
In many older men, the cancer progresses so slowly that surgery and other treatments may cause more harm than good.
The song, sung so slowly that the syllables start spawning syllables, lasts for a few seconds less than five minutes.
WSJ: Shame | Outrage | Tracking the Travails of Lost Souls | Film Reviews by Joe Morgenstern
For 40 years, the economy grew so slowly that hundreds of millions remain to this day trapped in the direst poverty.
When it first surfaces, you can do nothing, betting that the disease will grow so slowly that something else will kill you first.
If they constantly check and recheck all program files and commands to screen out cheaters, the game itself may run so slowly that it puts off everyone.
With a thrust that barely exceeded its weight, the booster struggled off the pad so slowly that a passenger could not be sure he was moving at all.
"The California legal system works so slowly that both cases will grind on at a pace that will probably allow him to handle both of them, " Toobin said.
Scotts Miracle-Gro, an American lawn-care firm, recently announced that it is developing genetically engineered strains of grass that are pest-proof and that grow so slowly that they may require no mowing.
So slowly that after a century of tree planting, the locals tell you that if you do get lost in an Icelandic forest all you have to do is stand up.
BBC: NEWS | Science/Nature | Rolling back Iceland's big desert
His train was high atop a slender viaduct across a flat valley, and immediately ahead of him was train D3115, moving so slowly that it might as well have been a wall.
So you're feeling very, very slowly so that you don't cut yourself, get tangled up, and things of that nature.
Today's bigger turbines are taller, with blades that spin more slowly, so that birds can more easily see the blades and avoid them, says Chuck McGowin, of the Electric Power Research Institute in Palo Alto, California.
The problem is that medullary cancer is so rare and develops so slowly over decades, that there is be no easy way to rule out the possibility that the drugs might boost cancer risk decades after people start taking them.
Reading between the lines, it appears the Fed, while keeping its monetary policy very accommodative, is beginning to lay the ground work ever so slowly that its money-printing presses cannot roll on forever, especially as the U.S. economy is picking up a slight head of steam.
FORBES: P.M. Kitco Metals Roundup: Gold Ends Weaker, Mildly Bearish FOMC Statement Weighs
And so slowly all the things that had made us the most productive country on earth were starting to slip away.
Even more compelling work is under way to produce a predictive genetic test that can reliably distinguish between the tumors that will kill you and the slackers that grow so slowly they will never cause any harm.
Dr Irwin who was one of her collaborators and Dr Majewski agree that this could be so, and that Sgr could be releasing its insides only slowly.
Last month they stomped home, cross that things were going so slowly.
Researchers from the University of Missouri postulated that the smoke from the fires was so thick and so deep in hue, so voluminous, that when, agonizingly slowly, it drifted over New England, it gave the illusion that the sun had died.
This means that normal matter collapses more slowly than dark matter, and that when it does so it has a tendency to oscillate, generating a sound wave.
The big relief, in Mr Mishkin's view, is that falling house prices translate only slowly into lower spending, so central bankers can soften even sharp house-price declines provided that they cut interest rates early.
The self-pic you know, the type of photo where you outstretch your arm in front of you and take a picture of your noggin (or several noggins) obfuscating some historical monument has become so ubiquitous and culturally acceptable that technology has slowly but surely bowed down to the fact that people really do like taking pictures of themselves.
And, as I learned on my first night, the hotel is right on top of Corso di Porta Ticenese, a frothing avenue of nightlife waitresses heft trays of cocktails in what amount to small fishbowls, and the crowd drinking outside Tasca, a tapas bar, is so thick that the tram creeps by, slowly forcing them back off the tracks.
But with global warming these areas are shrinking, so that plants adapted to the warmer, lower habitats slowly invade the higher elevations.
The idea is to pace yourself so slowly through a full golf swing, club in hand, that it takes two to three minutes to complete.
WSJ: The Punishment of Winter Workouts | Golf Journal by John Paul Newport
But somehow, every day passes right by, and slowly that new business project, that you want so badly to come to fruition, just slips further away.
FORBES: 7 Nuggets Of Wisdom Worth One Hundred Dollars To Your Business
After that, economies of scale kick in so that McDonald's can afford to raise menu prices more slowly than local inflation.
There has already been so much demand that the company is taking precautions and rolling it out slowly with a wait list.
应用推荐