cancer

英 ['kænsə] 美['kænsɚ]

n. 癌症；恶性肿瘤

近义词 carcinoma growth malignant tumour malignancy sarcoma

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英英释义

1. any malignant growth or tumor caused by abnormal and uncontrolled cell division; it may spread to other parts of the body through the lymphatic system or the blood stream

考试真题

Our risk of cancer rises dramatically as we age.

While such vigilant（警觉的）tracking of cancer is a good thing in general, researchers are increasingly questioning whether all of this testing is necessary for the elderly

But the message that everyone must screen for cancer has become so deep-rooted that when health care experts recommended that women under 50 and over 74 stop screening for breast cancer, it caused a riotous reaction among doctors, patients and advocacy groups.

It's hard to uproot deeply held beliefs about cancer screening with scientific data

Why do doctors recommend routine cancer screening for elderly people?

How do some researchers now look at routine cancer screening for the elderly

What is the conventional view about women screening for breast cancer?

Why do many doctors prescribe routine screening for cancer

In many cases, screening can lead to surgeries to remove cancer, while the cancers themselves may be slow-growing and may not pose serious health problems in patients' remaining years.

Certainly, there are people over age 75 who have had cancers detected by routine screening, and gained several extra years of life because of treatment

For example, Karen Hayes, a life coach in Toronto, conducts knitting therapy programs, including Knit to Quit to help smokers give up the habit, and Knit to Heal for people coping with health crises, like a cancer diagnosis or serious illness of a family

On the other hand, scientists are increasingly learning that aging and biological age are two different things, and that the former is a key risk factor for conditions such as heart disease, cancer and many more.

Recently it was shown that they could be trained to be as accurate as humans at detecting breast cancer in images.

Studies have explored evidence that dietary changes can slow inflammation, for example, or make the body inhospitable to cancer cells.

There're many people who recover from cancer, stroke or heart disease.

There's no question people can take things a long way toward reversing diabetes, reversing high blood pressure, even preventing cancer by food choices.

Unfortunately, also like her mother, she developed blood cancer because of exposure to radiation.

Research now says adding fiber to the teen diet may help lower the risk of breast cancer.

Is surgery, radiation or careful monitoring best for prostate ( ' , 前列腺) cancer? Is the latest and most expensive cholesterol-lowering drug any better than its common competitors? The pending bills would spend additional money to accelerate this effort.

This is much like a non-smoker getting cancer from second-hand smoke, while the heavy smoker is fortunate enough to smoke in good health.

But that isn't why the government—under pressure from cancer charities, health workers and the Labour party—has agreed to legislate for standardised packaging.

One reason for the rise in deaths from Alzheimer’s disease in this group may be that developing this condition remains possible even after people beat the odds of dying from other diseases such as cancer.

In 2000, the top five causes of death for centenarians were heart disease, stroke, flu, cancer and Alzheimer’s Disease.

They don't like to associate technology with food," said Nicholas Genovese, a visiting scholar in cancer cell biology.

Many cancer cases could be prevented.

Better skip dinner or hit the gym afterwards, with a cancer charity warning that some iced coffees contain as many calories as a hot dinner

The World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF) conducted a survey of iced coffees sold by some popular chains in Britain including Starbucks, Caffe Nero and Costa Coffee to gauge the calories as studies increasingly link obesity with cancer.

The WCRF has estimated that 19,000 cancers a year in Britain could be prevented if people lost their excess weight with growing evidence that excess body fat increases the risk of various cancers.

But telling them that eating lots of high-fiber foods could reduce the risk of breast cancer before middle age, that's a powerful message.

Is surgery, radiation or careful monitoring best for prostate cancer?

It turns out that those who consumed the highest levels of fiber during adolescence had a lower risk of developing breast cancer, compared to the women who ate the least fiber.

Several noted nutritionists and research projects have concluded that this diet is one of the most healthful in the world in terms of preventing such illnesses as heart disease and cancer, and increasing life expectancy.

The bottom line here is the more fiber you eat, perhaps, a lower level of hormone in your body, and therefore, a lower lifetime risk of developing breast cancer.

This important study demonstrates that the more fiber you eat during your high school years, the lower your risk is in developing breast cancer in later life.

He unfortunately passed away last year due to his cancer, but he left a deep impression on me and gave me the inspiration to pick up my pen again.

When he reads of the threatening foreign situation, the mounting national debt, rising taxes, falling market, scarce housing, and cancer.

A federal appeals court overturned the prior decision, ruling that Myriad Genetics could indeed hold patents to two genes that help forecast a woman's risk of breast cancer.

After all, it was rumored that smoking caused cancer for years before the evidence was found to prove a connection.

The zones do deliver some improvements to air quality, and the science tells us that means real health benefits - fewer heart attacks, strokes and premature births, less cancer, dementia and asthma.

While studies have shown that acrylamide can cause neurological damage in mice, there is no conclusive evidence that it causes cancer in humans.

实用场景例句

cancer research: 癌症研究

Violence is a cancer in our society.: 暴力行为是我们社会的毒瘤。

to become cancerous: 发生癌变

cancerous cells/growths/tumours: 癌细胞；癌病变；恶性肿瘤

cancer patients: 癌症病人

lung/breast cancer: 肺 / 乳腺癌

cancer of the bowel/stomach: 肠 / 胃癌

Most skin cancers are completely curable.: 大多数的皮肤癌是完全可以治愈的。

The cancer has spread to his stomach.: 癌已扩散到他的胃部。

Her mother died of breast cancer...: 她母亲死于乳腺癌。

Jane was just 25 when she learned she had cancer...: 简得知自己罹癌那一年才25岁。

The blank picokeystone served a couple purposes.: 取空白楔块儿有两个目的.

There the incidence of the cancer of the oesophagus was suspected to be pretty high.: 估计那里的食道癌发病率相当高.

This is a possible cure to fight off cancer.: 这也许是治愈癌症的良方.

The medicine is effective against cancer.: 这药物治癌有效.

Radium can be used to treat cancer.: 镭可以用来治疗癌症.

I learned that he was suffering from cancer.: 我听说他患了癌症.

He was suffering from cancer which had already reached an advanced stage.: 他的癌症已经到晚期了.

The diagnosis was ovarian cancer.: 诊断结果是卵巢癌.

He is in the terminal stage of cancer.: 他正处于癌症晚期.

The doctor thought the girl's illness should be kept back from her because it was cancer.: 医生认为不能把病情告诉这个女孩,因为她得了癌症.

He made a research into the cause of cancer.: 他对癌症病因进行了研究.

Cancer destroyed her body but not her spirit.: 癌症摧残了她的身体,却摧毁不了她的精神.

This is a specific for cancer.: 这是一种治疗癌症的特效药.

Lung cancer deprived him of his life.: 肺癌夺去了他的生命.

Besides cancer, smoking can lead on to other diseases.: 除了癌症外, 吸烟还可引起其他疾病.

one of the most common forms of cancer: 最普通的一种癌症

The test should identify which smokers are most prone to develop lung cancer.: 这项检查应该可以确认哪些吸烟者更容易得肺癌。

中文词源

Cancer 巨蟹座

来自PIE *kar, 硬，词源同hard. 字母n,r音变。

cancer 蟹，癌

因古希腊医生观察到肿瘤病人静脉肿胀形如螃蟹而得名。

双语例句

1. She spent a period of time working with people dying of cancer.: 她有一段时间曾帮助垂危的癌症患者。

2. Scientists know that cancer may not show up for many years.: 科学家们知道癌症可能会潜伏多年。

3. Decaffeinated coffee still contains some stimulants and other nasties linked with cancer.: 脱咖啡因的咖啡仍含一些刺激物和其他可能致癌的有害物质。

4. She attended a cancer support group at her local hospital.: 她参加了当地医院的癌症互助组。

5. Calcium may aid in the prevention of colon cancer.: 钙可能有助于预防结肠癌。

英文词源

cancer: cancer: [14] Cancer comes from Latin cancer, which meant literally ‘crab’. It was a translation of Greek karkínos ‘crab’, which, together with its derivative karkínōma (source of English carcinoma [18]) was, according to the ancient Greek physician Galen, applied to tumours on account of the crablike pattern formed by the distended blood vessels around the affected part.

Until the 17th century, the term generally used for the condition in English was canker, which arose from an earlier borrowing of Latin cancer in Old English times; before then, cancer had been used exclusively in the astrological sense. The French derivative of Latin cancer, chancre, was borrowed into English in the 16th century for ‘syphilitic ulcer’.
=> canker, carcinoma
cancer (n.): Old English cancer "spreading sore, cancer" (also canceradl), from Latin cancer "a crab," later, "malignant tumor," from Greek karkinos, which, like the Modern English word, has three meanings: crab, tumor, and the zodiac constellation (late Old English), from PIE root *qarq- "to be hard" (like the shell of a crab); cognates: Sanskrit karkatah "crab," karkarah "hard;" and perhaps cognate with PIE root *qar-tu- "hard, strong," source of English hard.

Greek physicians Hippocrates and Galen, among others, noted similarity of crabs to some tumors with swollen veins. Meaning "person born under the zodiac sign of Cancer" is from 1894. The sun being in Cancer at the summer solstice, the constellation had association in Latin writers with the south and with summer heat. Cancer stick "cigarette" is from 1959.

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复数: cancers;形容词: cancerous;

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