2020年MEM考试考前英语外刊阅读（二）

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Breast cancer could be detected five years before clinical signs appear in patients thanks to a blood test that could identify the body’s immune responses to tumour cells. That is the claim that has been made about research to be presented at a national cancer conference in Glasgow on Sunday. The study is the work of researchers at Nottingham University’s School of Medicine who focused on chemicals known as antigens.

The researchers correctly identified breast cancer in 37% of blood samples taken from affected patients. Crucially, they were also able to show that there was no cancer in 79% of samples from the control group. The results are considered to be highly encouraging by the group, which says they indicate that it will be possible to detect early breast cancer this way.

Other researchers have urged caution in interpreting these results. “These are clearly very preliminary data,” said Cambridge University cancer epidemiologist Prof Paul Pharoah. “A lot more research would be needed before any claim can be made that this is likely to represent a meaningful advance in the early detection of cancer.”

文本选自：The Guardian(卫报)

作者：Robin McKie

原文标题：Breast cancer may be detected by blood test five years before clinical signs show

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得益于血液测试，可以识别人体对肿瘤细胞的免疫反应，从而可以在患者出现临床体征之前五年就检测出乳腺癌。这是将于周日在格拉斯哥举行的全国癌症大会上发表的一项研究的结论。这项研究是诺丁汉大学医学院研究人员的杰作，他们致力于研究被称为抗原的化学物质。

研究人员从患病病人身上采集的血液样本中，正确地识别出了37%的样本患乳腺癌。至关重要的是，他们还能够证明对照组79%的样本没有癌症。该小组认为结果非常令人鼓舞，这表明将有可能通过这种方式检测早期乳腺癌。

其他研究人员则呼吁在解释这些结果时要谨慎。剑桥大学癌症流行病学家Paul Pharoah教授说：“这些显然是非常初步的数据。在做出任何结论可能代表癌症早期检测方面有意义的进步之前，尚且需要进行更多的研究。”

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