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"I have great confidence that by the end of the decade we’ll know in vast de
"I have great confidence that by the end of the decade we’ll know in vast de
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2023-07-27
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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." [br] How does the author indicate oncogenes?
选项
A、They are always in operation in a healthy person.
B、They remain unharmful so long as they are not activated.
C、They can be driven out of normal cells.
D、Normal cells can’t turn them off.
答案
B
解析
文章第三段提到“这一阶段,他们发现了肿瘤基因——一种引起癌变的基因,在正常的细胞中是处于非活动状态的。从宇宙射线到日常饮食辐射的任何东西都可能激活沉寂中的肿瘤基因,但如何激活尚不为人知。如果若干肿瘤基因被激活,细胞又无法阻止他们的活动,癌细胞就会生成。”根据文章,ACD三项在叙述中都有错误。只有B项符合。
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