首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
Doctors have long known that lung cancer, which kills 160, 000 Americans each year, takes a heavier toll among black Americans,
Doctors have long known that lung cancer, which kills 160, 000 Americans each year, takes a heavier toll among black Americans,
admin
2011-03-14
62
问题
Doctors have long known that lung cancer, which kills 160, 000 Americans each year, takes a heavier toll among black Americans, particularly black men, than among whites.【B6】______It also has to do with differences in income and access to medical care. But there has always been a lingering suspicion that some of the gap might be due to either overt or subconscious discrimination. A study in last week’s New England Journal of Medicine appears to support that disturbing conclusion.
【B7】______Even so, about 20% of lung-cancer patients are found to have a tumor whose biological characteristics and small size give them a good chance of being cured if the malignant growth is surgically removed.
Researchers at the Memorial Sloan. Kettering Cancer Center in New York City looked at data from more than 10, 000 white and black Medicare patients whose tumors were found early enough to make them candidates for surgery. About 77% of the white patients underwent the procedure, compared with 64% of blacks. The difference was sufficiently large to reduce the overall survival rate for black patients to 26% after five years, compared with 34% for whites.【B8】______" People are dying needlessly. " says Dr. Peter Bach of Memorial Sloan-Kettering.who led the study. He suspects "some combination of the procedure not being offered or pushed by doctors, and patients not accepting it "
【B9】______So getting the word out that there is a proven treatment could help close the gap. It’s also vital for doctors and patients to make sure they understand each other.
Better communication will be even more important as treatments become more complex. Currently there’s no screening test for finding lung cancer early. (Chest X rays almost always catch it too late.) But Dr. Claudia Henschke of the Weill Medical College at Cornell University and her colleagues believe they have found a way to identify very small tumors with low-dose CAT scans. 【B10】______.
A. Unlike other cancers, lung cancer is extremely hard to detect in its earliest, most treatable stages.
B. If there is a silver lining to this, it’s that those who were operated on had a similar survival rate regardless of race.
C. In part that’s because 34% of black men in the U. S. smoke cigarettes, compared with 28% of white men.
D. Often it takes only a little extra time and attention to bridge any cultural differences.
E. It’s a gap that concerns the doctors.
F. It’s a new approach that all smokers and ex-smokers, regardless of race, should keep an eye on.
【B10】
选项
答案
F
解析
此段内容讲,研究人员找到了一种新的识别小肿瘤的方法,这是一个新的办法,所有吸烟者和戒烟者,不论其种族,应密切留意。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/IuBO777K
0
考博英语
相关试题推荐
A、OfficestaffwilltransfertoanewlocationonJune10.B、Warehouseworkersshouldremoveout-of-datestockbyJune10.C、Cus
AlthoughGermanyhadmoreemployeesthanEnglandin2000and200by2002staffnumbersinEnglandhadrisentothesamelevela
Delegatesshouldgotoreceptionif______.
BadnewsforbankersTherewasgreatuncertaintytodayaboutthefutureforemployeesofLancetBankfollowingpublicati
•Readthearticlebelowaboutteam-building.•Choosethecorrectwordtofilleachgap,fromA,BorConthenextpage.•For
HowtosetpricesThemethodsadoptedinpricesettingarecrucialtoanybusiness.Whensettingprices,remembercostswill
Ifsustainablecompetitiveadvantagedependsonworkforceskills,Americanfirmshaveaproblem.Humanmanagementisnottradit
(Depictions)ofanimalsandhuntingscenes(canfound)(in)theprehistoriccavepaintingsof(nearlyevery)continent.
(Cigarettesmock)hasbeenshowntocontainnumerouscompoundsthat(areknownto)causecancerinexperimentalanimalsand(the
Ourbossistakingeveryonetotheballettonight,andIneedtomakesuremynewdress______fortheoccasion.
随机试题
(2011年第71题)下列治疗缺铁性贫血的铁剂中,不良反应最明显的是
医疗机构储存药品,应当实行
有线电视系统可采用无干线系统、独立前端系统、有中心前端系统、有远地前端系统四种基本模式,其中()是典型的电缆传输分配系统,由前端、干线、支线及用户分配网组成。
施工质量控制点的设置,要在分析施工对象或工序活动对工程质量特性可能产生的影响大小、危害程度及质量保证难易程度的基础上,由()确定。
某市的一家建筑工程公司由于业务萎缩而准备大幅裁减员工,那么,依据《劳动法》的规定,在下列人员中,该建筑工程公司不得与其解除劳动合同的是()。
关于原始凭证错误更正说法正确的是()。
小罗拟向主管请假一周回家探望家人,为了说服主管改变态度,同意自己的请假要求,小罗可以采用的方法有()。
根据人民警察辞退办法,被辞退的人民警察对辞退决定不服,可按照(),申请复核或提出申诉。
有关人权,下列表述正确的是()。
Americaissaidtohavethemostsuccessfuleconomicsysteminhistory.Butsometimesitbreaks.Sotoodothebigbanks,themo
最新回复
(
0
)