英文早点丨0612 - 女性乳腺癌有望被根除，医生欢迎新世界！

根据世界癌症研究基金会（WCRFI）的说法，乳腺癌是严重威胁全球女性健康的“头号杀手”，2012年诊断出170万新病例。《纽约时报》指出，大多数乳腺癌病例发生在老年妇女身上。在美国，患者年龄中位数为62岁。中国国家癌症中心近期发布的中国恶性肿瘤发病和死亡分析报告显示，乳腺癌居女性恶性肿瘤发病率首位，每年新发病例约27.9万。

I find life an exciting business and most exciting when it is lived for others.----Helen Keller

A woman with advanced breast cancer which had spread around her body has been completely cleared of the disease by a groundbreaking therapy that harnessed the power of her immune system to fight the tumours.

It is the first time that a patient with late-stage breast cancer has been successfully treated by a form of immunotherapy that uses the patient’s own immune cells to find and destroy cancer cells that have formed in the body.

文本选自 ：The guardian(卫报)

作者 ：Ian Sample and Jessica Glenza

原文标题 ：Doctors hail world first as woman’s advanced breast cancer is eradicated

原文发布时间 ：4 June 2018

therapy

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• n. 治疗，疗法，疗效;心理治疗;治疗力