2011卫生类职称英语教材阅读理解新增文章

2011卫生类职称英语教材阅读理解新增文章

2011年卫生类教材阅读理解题新增文章：

第三篇

Cooking Oil Fumes Cause Tumor

The leading cause of lung cancer among women in the city was cooking oil fumes w hile men are more likely to develop the dise ase from smoking，said medical experts after a five-year research study.

Doctors announced the results yesterday with analysis on some new tendencies in lu ng cancer.They said patients are younger，es pecially women.

According to the Shanghai Tumor resea rch Institute，more local residents die of lun g cancer in the city than anything else.Follo wing breast cancer，it has the second-highest incidence rate.

“An unhealthy lifestyle is a very import ant reason for lung cancer，”said Dr He Yu

min from Shanghai Minshen Traditional Chi nese Medicine Tumor Diagnosis and Treatme nt Center.

He followed 2,276 lung cancer patients f or five years.Among them，1,483 were male.

Smoking causes 70 percent of cases amo ng men while only 18 percent of female pati ents developed cancer from smoking or inhal ing second-hand smoke，according to the rep ort.

However，more than 60 percent of wome n with the disease had long term，close cont act with strong oil fumes from cooking and complained about l irritated eyes and throat.

About 32 percent of women fried foods in boiling oil in unventilated kitchens and ab out 25 percent of women’s bedrooms were a djacent to2 the kitchen.

However，local women were surprised to learn cooking oil fumes could lead to cance

r.Some claimed they may change food prepa ration methods.

“Unless my family and I don’t eat at h ome every day，I must stay in the kitchen t o cook，”said Xu Li.a 45-year-old local woma n.“I know the fumes are bad for the skin，b ut it is the first time I heard that it can res ult in lung cancer.I have already started fryi ng less.’’

Doctors said women’s lung cancer had f ew links to personal health and physical con dition，but was closely related to family canc er history，unhealthy dietary habits and wea k immune systems.

Other experts agreed with He.3

“Smoking is by far the biggest cause4 o f lung cancer for men，”said Dr Tan Binyon g，honorary president of the Respiratory Dis ease Institute at F udan University’s Medical College.“It’s true that second-hand smoke an

d cooking fumes ar

e the main causes among women.”

He’s research also warned people not to stand near of stalls selling5 fried foods due to the poor quality of oils used.

The chance of catching lung cancer is t hree times higher if exposed to the fume for a long time，6 experts said.

词汇：

fume n.烟，气，汽fry v.油炸，油煎

tumor(=tumour)n.肿瘤unventilated vt.使不通风

cancern.癌瘤adjacent adj.临近的

breast/brest/n.****，胸dietary adj饮食的

incidence n.发生(率) immune adj 免疫的

diagnosis n.诊断honorary adj.名誉上的;荣誉的