时间:2019-01-31 作者:英语课 分类:2006年VOA标准英语(六月)


英语课

By Barry Unger
Washington, DC
09 June 2006
 
watch Cancer report


A pair of studies has discovered a connection between younger black women and a more aggressive form of breast cancer. The disease is affecting black women in both Africa and the United States.


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Young black women have a much greater risk of contacting a more aggressive form of breast cancer according to a recent study released in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Results echo the findings of a study done last year on African women. Both studies found that young black women are more likely to obtain a more aggressive and lethal 1 form of breast cancer than white women.
 



  
  


The comparison in breast cancer cases between women in Nigeria and Senegal and women in Canada was the basis of the study released last year by University of Chicago researchers.


Women in the African countries were more likely to develop breast cancer at an earlier age and develop tumors from the more lethal basal-like cells.


 
Dr. Lisa Carey 
  
Dr. Lisa Carey is the author of a study conducted at the University of North Carolina at Chapel 2 Hill that focused on African-American women. "Of pre-menopausal African-American woman who develop breast cancer fully 3, 39 percent of them are this basal-like form, a more aggressive form of breast cancer, compared to only 15 percent in all the other groups," she said.


The study monitored nearly 500 breast cancer cases. Lorie Williams was scared when she learned she had the basal type of breast cancer. "I had a feeling that I was going to die,” she said. “That's kind of what it felt like; that it was a death sentence for me."



Lorie Williams  
  
Williams underwent treatment and doctors say she is currently cancer-free.


Still, African-American women in the United States under the age of 50 have almost double the mortality rate from breast cancer as white women. Doctors are not yet sure why black women face a greater risk to the more aggressive form of breast cancer.  Carey said, "Now that we know it does happen, the hope is that this kind of knowledge will let us then improve screening or prevention and ultimately develop targeted treatments."


Doctors also stress the importance of early screenings in fighting breast cancer.


Williams agrees. “Do your self-breast-exam, don't be afraid to do it on your own,” she said. “Don't be afraid to ask questions, don't be afraid to be proactive about your own health care."


Doctors are currently developing new drugs to test against the basal type of breast cancer



adj.致死的;毁灭性的
  • A hammer can be a lethal weapon.铁锤可以是致命的武器。
  • She took a lethal amount of poison and died.她服了致命剂量的毒药死了。
n.小教堂,殡仪馆
  • The nimble hero,skipped into a chapel that stood near.敏捷的英雄跳进近旁的一座小教堂里。
  • She was on the peak that Sunday afternoon when she played in chapel.那个星期天的下午,她在小教堂的演出,可以说是登峰造极。
adv.完全地,全部地,彻底地;充分地
  • The doctor asked me to breathe in,then to breathe out fully.医生让我先吸气,然后全部呼出。
  • They soon became fully integrated into the local community.他们很快就完全融入了当地人的圈子。
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acrospiromas
analytic operator-valued function
area levelling
atomic oxygen fluence model
axial cut distance
azimuth compiler
bahorok
ballast draft condition
batch calculation
bellowed
causative factors of injury
cepalotribe
cobalt nitrate
commodity in warehouse
companion piece
completion message
concentration tracer
cu fts
despotic monarch
dextropropoxyphene
doubling course
dwarf grey willows
elbow-bone
ewan mcgregor
fakeness
flat-plate pressing machine
foot piece
free open textured sand
friction bezel ring
game-fishing
hecto-coulombs
henders
heterogenous catalysis
hog-nosed snake
hollow cathode aluminum ion laser
horsemeat
hungers
hydrophiling
ill-luck
in boundless enthusiasm
incident neutron energy
Indigosol Green IB
iner
katastates
keep your chin up
lavand
load-carrying winding
low-volume shipper
Macquarie Island
magson
Maskil
mason cities
master distance indicator
MCAIS
measurement pattern
mene, mene, tekel, upharsin
metasilicate
more significant bit
Murray State University
new productive capacity
nonoperating
numerical response
optimum capital stock
pachycholia
paramilitarisms
paratrygonica
pentapyrrolidinium
phobic layer
phrasemakings
pinos
power weight ratio
prolified
rageaholics
ravet
reactive termination
redirector
retrofittable
rookly
rotundatus
rugous
satyr plays
sea-cornet
Seckels
single-tub wagon tipper
special holder
spironolactone(anti-aldosterone)
spitball
standard money unit of account
state of permanent neutrality
statistic bit rate
steel hemp
suck at
suratenses
to service
tweer
underground gasification of coal
urcaryote
variable-duration
water regeneration technique
whip a fault out of sb.
wormly
yellowishness