2006年VOA标准英语-Cancer Survivors Seek More US Reseach Funding t

By Zulima Palacio
Washington, DC
21 September 2006
 
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Cancer survivors¹, researchers and advocates say more money is needed for cancer research.  Their goal:  to get the U.S. government to make cancer a national priority. VOA's Carol Pearson narrates².

 
Cancer rally, Celebration on the Hill
They called it the "Celebration on the Hill" because that's where cancer survivors, cancer researchers and those who support more research funding met just down the hill from the U.S. Capitol.

"For the last five years, I've been living with breast cancer, stage four breast cancer, which means it is advanced throughout the bones in my body. I've been doing well for the last five years," one participant said. 

Thousands of people --Americans and international supporters -- traveled to Washington, D.C., to voice their support for cancer research and to persuade the federal government to make fighting cancer a national priority.

 
Dale Dawson
Dale Dawson is a nurse at a cancer center.  She has been diagnosed with breast cancer twice. "I'm here to put a face on cancer and to let the congressmen and senators know we have a voice and we will be heard."

Dawson says if her diagnosis³ had come 15 years earlier, she would not have survived.  The American Cancer Society and the Cancer Action Network sponsored this event.

 
Wendy Selig
Wendy Selig is with the American Cancer Society. "Last year, for the first time, the Congress cut funding for cancer at the National Cancer Research Institute.  This year, there are proposals to cut it again, and that's exactly the wrong direction. Better ways to detect cancer -- that's why we're here."

Cancer survivors and patients, such as Christa Jailey, see continued funding as an urgent need. "We are on the cusp of finding all kinds of treatments, and if not the cure, then treatments that let people like me live with cancer as a manageable, chronic⁴ disease."

An example of the advances in treating cancer is the cervical cancer vaccine⁵ that became available this year.  It is the first vaccine developed specifically to prevent cancer.

 
Thousands of people --Americans and international supporters -- traveled to Washington, D.C
The aim of the rally was partly political, for some it as partly therapeutic⁶, for all, it was highly personal.  They came to fight for their cause, for patients, to gain strength from other cancer survivors, and to remember family and friends who have died from the disease.

Said one participant: "I put 'We came back to see you again, Daddy.'  We actually did this banner in memory of my dad."

1 survivors   

幸存者，残存者，生还者( survivor的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The survivors were adrift in a lifeboat for six days. 幸存者在救生艇上漂流了六天。
• survivors clinging to a raft 紧紧抓住救生筏的幸存者

2 narrates   

v.故事( narrate的第三人称单数 )

参考例句：

• It narrates the unconstitutional acts of James II. 它历数了詹姆斯二世的违法行为。 来自辞典例句
• Chapter three narrates the economy activity which Jew return the Occident. 第三章讲述了犹太人重返西欧后的经济活动。 来自互联网

3 diagnosis   

n.诊断，诊断结果，调查分析，判断

参考例句：

• His symptoms gave no obvious pointer to a possible diagnosis.他的症状无法作出明确的诊断。
• The engineer made a complete diagnosis of the bridge's collapse.工程师对桥的倒塌做一次彻底的调查分析。

4 chronic   

adj.(疾病)长期未愈的，慢性的；极坏的

参考例句：

• Famine differs from chronic malnutrition.饥荒不同于慢性营养不良。
• Chronic poisoning may lead to death from inanition.慢性中毒也可能由虚弱导致死亡。

5 vaccine   

n.牛痘苗，疫苗；adj.牛痘的，疫苗的

参考例句：

• The polio vaccine has saved millions of lives.脊髓灰质炎疫苗挽救了数以百万计的生命。
• She takes a vaccine against influenza every fall.她每年秋季接种流感疫苗。

6 therapeutic   

adj.治疗的，起治疗作用的；对身心健康有益的

参考例句：

• Therapeutic measures were selected to fit the patient.选择治疗措施以适应病人的需要。
• When I was sad,music had a therapeutic effect.我悲伤的时候，音乐有治疗效力。