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A. lack of funding
B. many cancer patients
C. more lives being saved
D. more than five
years
E. the ultimate answers
F. more
funding
The American Cancer Society’s research program has benefited ______.
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Many cancer patients are finding now hope in an unusual and controversial approach to cancer treatment. The new method has been developed by Carl Simonton, M. D. , a specialist in the science of tumours. He says the results can sometimes be "truly amazing", when a cancer patient lets his mind take part in the treatment.
Simonton recalls that his first patient might have been thought to be a "hopeless" case by some people. "He was a sixty-one-year-old man with very severe throat cancer. He had lost a great deal of weight. He could barely swallow his own saliva and could eat no food."
"I taught him to relax and mentally see his disease," Simonton states. "Then I had him picture an army of white blood ceils coming attacking and overcoming the cancer cells. The results of the treatment were both thrilling and frightening. Within two weeks his cancer had noticeably decreased and he was quickly gaining weight. I say it was fr
A. The body has an important effect on the mind.
B. Radiation and pills can destroy cancer cells.
C. Cancer patients must learn to express their negative feelings.
D. Cancer treatment can sometimes help more if the patient forms positive mental pictures.
[填空题]Villages in (S1) _____ countries often lack many things, such as books, clean water, (S2) _____ These shortages are easy to see, but a (S3) _____ kind of shortage is not easy to see. That is a shortage of experts. Many villages have no doctors, engineers or (S4) _____ . They have no one who knows how to treat (S5) _____ medical problems or (S6) _____ a new energy system. There’s a way to (S7) _____ these problems. They can do it with computers.
In the past few years, computer specialists around the world have developed what they call expert systems. An expert system is a special kind of computer program. (S8) _____ . For example, an expert in medical system can help care of a sick person. A question appears on the computer screen, the person hot " You tell the computer whether yes or no. The computer asks other questions. "Has the person lost any blood .... Can the person move normally " You answer. (S9) _____ . Then it tells what medicine or other treatment is needed. In t
[单项选择]For years, doctors have given cancer patients three main treatments: surgery, radiation and chemotherapy. Now researchers are developing a fourth weapon: the patient’s own immune system. New vaccines and drugs can stimulate the production of an army of cells and antibodies that kill cancer cells.
Drug-vaccine therapy may lie lifesaver for Deerfield man. Few people survive advanced melanoma, but immune therapy is giving Deerfield resident Douglas Parker a fighting chance. The 46-year-old salesman noticed a mole on his chest three and a half years ago that was found to be cancerous. Doctors removed the mole but didn’t get all of the cancer. The cancer spread to other parts of his body, including his liver, where a tumor grew as large as a baseball. Parker took interferon and interleukin-2 to boost his immune system’s ability to fight the cancer. The tumor shrank but didn’t disappear. In August, 1997, surgeons removed it, along with two thirds of his liver. Last January, doctors disc
A. surgery
B. radiation
C. chemotherapy
D. immune therapy
