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While there’s never a good age to get cancer, people in their 20s and 30s can feel particularly isolated. The average age of a c
While there’s never a good age to get cancer, people in their 20s and 30s can feel particularly isolated. The average age of a c
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2016-11-13
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While there’s never a good age to get cancer, people in their 20s and 30s can feel particularly isolated. The average age of a cancer patient at diagnosis is 67. Children with cancer often are treated at pediatric (小儿科的) cancer centers, but young adults have a tough time finding peers, often sitting side-by-side during treatments with people who could be their grandparents.
In her new book Crazy Seocy Cancer Tips, writer Kris Carr looks at cancer from the perspective of a young adult who confronts death just as she’s discovering life. Ms. Carr was 31 when she was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer that had generated tumors on her liver and lungs.
Ms. Carr reacted with the normal feelings of shock and sadness. She called her parents and stocked up on organic food, determined to become a "full-time healing addict." Then she picked up the phone and called everyone in her address book, asking if they knew other young women with cancer. The result was her own personal "cancer posse": a rock concert tour manager, a model, a fashion magazine editor, a cartoonist and a MTV celebrity, to name a few. This club of "cancer babes" offered support, advice and fashion tips, among other things.
Ms. Carr put her cancer experience in a recent Learning Channel documentary, and she has written a practical guide about how she coped. Cancer isn’t funny, but Ms. Carr often is. She swears, she makes up names for the people who treat her (Dr. Fabulous and Dr. Guru), and she even makes second opinions sound fun ("cancer road trips," she calls them).
She leaves the medical advice to doctors, instead offering insightful and practical tips that reflect the world view of a young adult. "I refused to let cancer ruin my party," she writes, "There are just too many cool things to do and plan and live for."
Ms. Carr still has cancer, but it has stopped progressing. Her cancer tips include using time-saving mass e-mails to keep friends informed, sewing or buying fashionable hospital gowns so you’re not stuck with regulation blue or gray and playing Gloria Gaynor’s "I Will Survive" so loud you neighbors call the police. Ms. Carr also advises an eyebrow wax and a new outfit before you tell the important people in your illness. "People you tell are going to cautiously and not so cautiously try to see the cancer, so dazzle them instead with your miracle," she writes.
While her advice may sound superficial, it gets to the heart of what every cancer patient wants: the chance to live life just as she always did, and maybe better.
The phrase "cancer posse" in Paragraph 3 probably refers to
选项
A、a cancer research organization.
B、a group of people who suffer from cancer.
C、people who have recovered from cancer.
D、people who cope with cancer.
答案
B
解析
根据cancer posse定位至第3段第4句。由该句的The result was...可知,cancer posse是(Carr 致电她的朋友后的结果,而她打电话的目的是为了寻找young women with cancer,故可知cancer posse就是“一群患癌症的女性”。B所述恰与这一推断吻合,因此为本题答案。从第3段第4句冒号后列出的内容可知,Cancer posse的成员从事各种不同的职业。不可能是在同一机构工作,也不是专门对抗癌症的医务人员,故排除A、D。第3段第5句说到cancer posse的成员仍需要互相支持和帮助,故不可能是已康复的患者,C也可排除。
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