cancer

【发音】

美 /'kænsɚ/ 英 /'kænsə/

【翻译】

1. n. 癌， 癌症； 肿瘤

   英释:a very serious disease in which cells in one part of the body start to grow in a way that is not normal

【记忆】

“看色” → 谈癌色变 → 癌症

【短语】

1. breast cancer : 乳腺癌

2. lung cancer : 肺癌

3. liver cancer : 肝癌

4. gastric cancer : 胃癌

5. prostate cancer : 前列腺癌

6. colorectal cancer : [医]结肠直肠癌

7. cancer cell : 癌细胞

8. skin cancer : 皮肤癌

9. colon cancer : 结肠癌；大肠癌；直肠癌

10. cervical cancer : 宫颈癌

11. pancreatic cancer : 胰腺癌；胰脏癌

12. cancer research : 癌症研究；肿瘤研究

13. esophageal cancer : 食管癌；食道癌

14. bladder cancer : 膀胱癌

15. rectal cancer : 直肠癌

16. esophagus cancer : 食道癌

17. stomach cancer : 胃癌

18. rectum cancer : 直肠癌

19. advanced cancer : 晚期癌症

20. terminal cancer : 癌症晚期

【例句】

1. A lot of cancers can now be treated successfully.

   现在许多癌症可以治愈。

2. She was told last year that she had cancer .

   去年她得知自己患了癌症。

3. He died of cancer last month.

   上个月他死于癌症。

4. a new treatment which effectively kills cancer cells

   一种能有效杀死癌细胞的新疗法

【真题例句】

1. (2017.12 • CET4 • • 阅读理解)...Recently it was shown that they could be trained to be as accurate as humans at detecting breast cancer in images...

2. (2012.12 • CET4 • 第一套 • 阅读理解)...Our risk of cancer rises dramatically as we age...

3. (2012.12 • CET4 • 第一套 • 阅读理解)...It's hard to uproot deeply held beliefs about cancer screening with scientific data...

4. (2008.12 • CET4 • • 阅读理解)...you are more than twice as likely to die of skin cancer than a woman...

【同、近义词】

1. n.[肿瘤]癌症；恶性肿瘤

   malignant tumor/carcinomatosis/

【同根词】

1. adj

   cancerous : 癌的；生癌的；像癌的