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Community cancer clusters are viewed quite differently by citizen activists than by epidemiologists. Environmentalists and conce
Community cancer clusters are viewed quite differently by citizen activists than by epidemiologists. Environmentalists and conce
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2019-08-01
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问题
Community cancer clusters are viewed quite differently by citizen activists than by epidemiologists. Environmentalists and concerned local residents, for instance, might immediately suspect environmental radiation as the culprit when a high incidence of cancer cases occurs near a nuclear facility. Epidemiologists, in contrast, would be more likely to say that the incidences were "inconclusive" or the result of pure chance. And when a breast cancer survivor, Lorraine Pace, mapped 20 breast cancer cases occurring in her West Islip, Long Island, community, her rudimentary research efforts were guided more by hope—that a specific environmental agent could be correlated with the cancers—than by scientific method.
When epidemiologists study clusters of cancer cases and other noncontagious conditions such as birth defects or miscarriage, they take several variables into account, such as background rate (the number of people affected in the general population), cluster size, and specificity (any notable characteristics of the individual affected in each case). If a cluster is both large and specific, it is easier for epidemiologists to assign blame. Not only must each variable be considered on its own, but it must also be combined with others. Lung cancer is very common in the general population. Yet when a huge number of cases turned up among World War II shipbuilders who had all worked with asbestos, the size of the cluster and the fact that the men had had similar occupational asbestos exposures enabled epidemiologists to assign blame to the fibrous mineral.
Although several known carcinogens have been discovered through these kinds of occupational or medical clusters,
only one community cancer cluster has ever been traced to an environmental cause.
Health officials often discount a community’s suspicion of a common environmental cause because citizens tend to include cases that were diagnosed before the afflicted individuals moved into the neighborhood. Add to this is the problem of cancer’s latency. Unlike an infectious disease such as cholera, which is caused by a recent exposure to food or water contaminated with the cholera bacterium, cancer may have its roots in an exposure that occurred 10 to 20 years earlier.
Do all these
caveats
mean that the hard work of Lorraine Pace and other community activists is for nothing? Not necessarily. Together with many other reports of breast cancer clusters on Long Island, the West Islip situation highlighted by Pace has helped epidemiologists lay the groundwork for a well-designed scientific study.
The text suggests that the fact "only one community cancer cluster had ever been traced to an environmental cause" (Para. 3) is most likely due to the_________.
选项
A、methodological difficulties in analyzing community cancer clusters
B、reluctance of epidemiologists to investigate environmental factors in cancer
C、lack of credibility of citizen activists in claiming to have identified cancer agents
D、effectiveness of regulations restricting the use of carcinogens in residential areas
答案
C
解析
推断题。第三段前两句指出,虽然找到了几种致病因素,但仅有一种被认为与环境有关,因为卫生官员认为普通人经常把一些在住进社区之前就患病的人计算在内,可见[C]符合文意。
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考研英语一
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