Patient: Dr. Brown, one of my best friends died of lung cancer yesterday. Does cancer have a high mortality?
布朗医生,我有一位好朋友昨天死于癌症。癌症的死亡率高吗?
Dorctor: No, it doesn't. Skin cancer, for instance, is often curable. But lung cancer is the leading cause of death from cancer for both men and women is the U. S..
并非这样,例如皮肤癌是可治愈的。但肺癌是美国女性喝男性因癌症死亡的主要原因。
P:Csn we call tumor cancer?
我们可以把肿瘤称为癌症吗?
D:No. Cancer may also be called malignancy, a malignant tumor, or a neoplasm. A non-malignant growth or tumor is referred to as benign, which is not cancer.
不是的,癌可以称为恶性、恶性肿瘤或新生物。非恶性肿瘤被称作良性肿瘤,不属于癌。
P:I see. What causes the tumor growth?
我明白了,肿瘤的生长是怎样引起的的吗
D:The exact nature and cause of tumor growth are still unknown.
肿瘤的确切特性和原因尚不清楚。
P:Could you tell me how many different kind of csncers there are?
目前癌有多少种?
D:It is estimated that there are 200 different kinds of cancers. Leukemia is also classed as malignant growth.
估计有200多种。白血病也被归为恶性癌症
P:Can you give a list of specific types of cancer?
关于癌症的具体类型能列举一下吗
D:Well, they are basal cell cancer; bile duct caner; brain tumor(metastatic, primary, secondary); breast cancer; lung cancer, bronchogenic carcinoma, carcinoma of? the stomach and so on.
好吧,它们是基底细胞癌,胆管癌,脑癌(转移性,原发性,继发性),乳腺癌,肺癌,支气管癌,胃癌等
P:Oh, so many types. That is to say cancer is not one disease, is it?
这么多种,这样说癌症不是一种疾病是吗?
D:It is a group of more than 100 different and distinctive disease.
它是100多种特异性各异的一组疾病。
P:Is cancer contagious?
癌症会传染吗?
D:No, it isn't. But the occurrence of a particular cancer may depend on gender.
不会的,但某些癌症的发生似乎和性别有关
P:Can you. give some examples?
你能举些列子吗?
D:Skin cancer is the most common type of malignancy for both men and women. The second most common type in men is prostate and in wonen, breast cancer.
皮肤癌是在男女中最常见的一种恶性肿瘤。第二常见的癌在男性中是前列腺癌,而女性则是乳腺癌。