Another Danger of Hormone Replacement Therapy

Broadcast: June 11, 2003 By Nancy Steinbach This is the VOA Special English Health Report. New research has found another danger of hormone replacement therapy1. The therapy studied involved the hormo

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This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Last year, researchers reported that breast cancer rates in the United States dropped in two thousand three. That was after about twenty years of rising. Many experts linked the drop to a sharp reductio

VOA标准英语2010年-Gold is Hottest Thing in Cancer Treatm

Scientists are putting a modern spin on a cancer treatment that goes back to antiquity. It's heat therapy, which is getting a new look with the help of microscopic particles of gold. Cancer treatments usually involve powerful drugs or radiation. But

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Scientists are putting a modern spin on a cancer treatment that goes back to antiquity. It's heat therapy, which is getting a new look with the help of microscopic particles of gold. 科学家们正在利用一种古代技术来治疗癌症。在纳米

【轻松英文阅读】医疗上的突破

For more than ten years of his life Nick Wilkins fought leukemia. It was a heartbreaking time for his parents. But now at 15, Nick is cancer-free thanks to a new experimental therapy. Nick went through many kinds of treatment: chemotherapy, radiation

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Cancer____ who use___ medicine are no more likely than other cancer patients to stop their___ treatments,____ of an Austrian study show. In fact, the____ who did the study report that patients who used alternative medicines often had good___ skills

2007-08-25, Bee Therapy 蜂针疗法

Today in Taiwan, people from all walks of life are choosing to be stung by bees, often dozens of times in one sitting. Shourang Chen is battling multiple sclerosis , a disease which slowly causes the body's nerve to deteriorate. For six months, I was

英伦广角 英国第一家质子治疗诊所开业

At 13 years old, Rashard has already had two courses of radiant therapy. At first, he went into remission. But the cancer came back. And the treatments have had serious impacts on his health. He was very shaky. Could barely walk really. He lost the f

VOA常速英语2008年-Gene Therapy Yields Results Against Rare Form o

By Robert Raffaele Washington 29 April 2008 For the first time, scientists have used gene therapy to dramatically improve sight in people with a rare, inherited form ofblindness. Researchers in Philadelphia and London are calling the results a milest

VOA常速英语2007-Inadequate Mental Therapy Cited For Cancer Patie

By Melinda Smith Washington 30 October 2007 The U.S. Institute of Medicine has released a study calling for uniform standards of emotional therapy for cancer patients. VOA's Melinda Smith has more on the study. These cancer survivors are sharing thei

2006年VOA标准英语-Treatment Gives Hope For Ovarian Cancer Pa

By Paige Kollock Washington, D.C. 18 January 2006 view Cancer report Medical experts say it is the biggest breakthrough in more than a decade in the fight against ovarian cancer, a rare but deadly for

美国国家公共电台 NPR Old-Style Chemo Is Still A Mainstay In The Age Of Targeted Cancer Therapy

DAVID GREENE, HOST: Today in Your Health, we're taking a close look at chemotherapy. It's been a mainstay of cancer treatment for decades, but that method is slowly being edged aside in medical research as new treatments, like immunotherapy, grab the

2007年VOA标准英语-Group Therapy Does Not Extend Life of Cancer Pa

By Leta Hong Fincher Washington 13 August 2007 A study has found that women with breast cancer who take part in group psychotherapy do not live longer than those who do not -- contrary to a much-publicized study from 18 years ago. But the author of t

VOA慢速英语 2007 0516a

This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Research is often a slow, maddening search for answers where each new finding only seems to raise more questions. This is the case with a story we told you about last month. It offers a good example of

Blood Cancer Therapy Is Last Chance for Some

Blood Cancer Therapy Is Last Chance for Some An experimental therapy uses a persons weak immune system to fight deadly blood cancers. Stanley Riddell is a researcher at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in the U.S. state of Washington. He an

VOA英语2010年-Estrogen Therapy Reduces Breast Cancer Risk

A new analysis of data from a study of post-menopausal women is challenging existing guidelines on hormone therapy. The researchers say women taking estrogen alone are at a significantly lower risk of breast cancer, and do not show an increased risk

2007年VOA标准英语-Drop in Breast Cancer Rate Tied to Drop in Horm

By Melinda Smith Washington 16 August 2007 In 2002, a national study of millions of American women showed that taking hormone replacement therapy during menopause increases the risk of breast cancer, blood clots and strokes. The news prompted many wo

2006年VOA标准英语-Physicians Defend Medical Imaging in Fight

By Chris Mitchell Washington, DC 06 April 2006 watch Medical Imaging report Medical experts have defended medical imaging as a way to improve health care, during a briefing at the U.S. Capitol buildin

VOA常速英语2008年-Cancer Risk Persists in Women Who Stop Hormone

By Jessica Berman Washington 04 March 2008 According to the results of a large U.S. study, older women who used hormone therapy to ease the symptoms of menopause and then discontinued it remain at increased risk of cancer. Researchers voiced surprise

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Proton Therapy 质子疗法也叫质子刀，是放射治疗的一种，比普通的放射疗法更有针对性。质子作为带正电荷的粒子，以极高的速度进入人体，由于其速度快，在体内与正常组织或细胞发生作用的