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"I have great confidence that by the end of the decade we’ll know in vast detail how cancer cells arise," says microbiologist Ro
"I have great confidence that by the end of the decade we’ll know in vast detail how cancer cells arise," says microbiologist Ro
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2010-04-12
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"I have great confidence that by the end of the decade we’ll know in vast detail how cancer cells arise," says microbiologist Robert Weinberg, an export on cancer. "But," he cautious, "Some people have the idea that once one understands the causes, the cure will rapidly follow. Consider Pasteur. He discovered the causes of many kinds of infections, but it was fifty or sixty years before cures were available."
This year, 50 percent of the 910, 000 people who suffer from cancer will survive at least five years. In the year 2000, the National Cancer Institute estimates, that figure will be 75 percent. For some skin cancers, the five-year survival rate is as high as 90 percent. But other survival statistics are still discouraging: 13 percent for lung cancer, and 2 percent for cancer of the pancreas (胰腺).
With as many as 120 varieties in existence, discovering how cancer works is not easy. The researchers made great progress in the early 1970s, when they discovered that oncogenes (致癌基因), which are cancer causing genes (基因), are inactive in normal cells. Anything from cosmic rays to radiation to diet may activate a dormant oneogene, but how remains unknown. If several oncogenes are driven into action, the cell, unable to mm them off, becomes cancerous.
The exact mechanisms involved are still mysterious, but the likelihood that many cancers axe initiated at the level of genes suggests that we will never prevent all cancers. "Changes axe a normal part of the evolutionary process," says oncologist William Hayward. Environmental factors can never be totally eliminated; as Hayward points out, "We can’t prepare a medicine against cosmic rays."
The prospects for cure, though still distant, are brighter. "First, we need to understand how the normal cell controls itself. Second, we have to determine whether there are a bruited number of genes in cells which are always responsible for at least part of the trouble. If we can understand how cancer works, we can counteract its action."
What can we infer from paragraph 2?
选项
A、There will be a drastic rise in the five-year survival rate of skin-cancer patients.
B、Ninety percent of the skin-cancer patients today will still be living.
C、The survival statistics will be fairly even among patients with various cancers.
D、There won’t be a drastic increase of survival rate of all cancer patients.
答案
D
解析
选项A,B,C都是错误的说法。文章第二段说到“But other survival statistics are still discouraging.”意为“但是其他癌症存活串的统计数字仍令人沮丧。通过这个句子可知,不是所有癌症病人的存活率都会有很大提升的。”因此本题选择D。
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