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ABC 뉴스 시사 표현 숙달 (2010-7) (STORY 4)
STORY4. MOMENT OF HOPE: BATTLING BREAST CANCER
DIANE SAWYER (ABC NEWS): (OC) 오늘 밤 의학 소식으로는, 유방암을 초기 단계에서 치료하는 가능성을 제시하는 새로운 방법을 발표한 연구 결과를 놓고 많은 의사들과 암 환자들이 평가를 하고 있다는 소식입니다. 샤론 알폰지가 보도합니다.
In medical news tonight, a lot of doctors and breast cancer patients are weighing a new study that offers a possible new approach to treating breast cancer in its early stages. Here's Sharyn Alfonsi.
SHARYN ALFONSI (ABC NEWS): (VO) 매일 방사선 치료를 받게 되면 유방암 환자의 건강에 악영향을 미칠 수 있습니다. 그렇지 않더라도 최소한 환자를 탈진하게 하고, 최악의 경우 병약해 지기까지 합니다. 이런 상황에서, 일부 유방암 수술의 경우 수술이 진행되는 동안 단 한 차례 방사선 치료를 받는 것만으로도 못지 않은 효과가 있다는 주장이 의료계 일각에서 나왔습니다.
Daily doses of radiation can take its toll on breast cancer patients. At best, it's exhausting. At worse, debilitating. Now, some doctors say getting a single dose of radiation during some breast cancer surgeries could be just as effective.
(VO) 정상적인 경우, 유방암 종양 제거 수술을 받으면 그 후 3주에서 6주 사이에, 일주일에 5일은 방사선센터를 방문해서, 매번 약한 방사선 치료를 받아야 합니다. 그 대안은 수술이 진행되는 동안 특정 조직만 좀 더 강력한 방사선 치료를 하는 것일 수도 있습니다.
Normally, after a woman undergoes a lumpectomy, she has to visit a radiation center five days a week for anywhere from three to six weeks, getting a low shot of radiation each time. The alternative could be one stronger dose of targeted radiation during the surgery.
DOCTOR SUSAN LOVE (BREAST CANCER RESEARCHER): 그렇게 되면 시간을 절약할 뿐더러, 유방 조직, 심장, 폐에 미치는 부작용을 애초에 예방하게 되며 훨씬 더 나은 방법이 됩니다.
That not only saves time, but also side effects from the radiation to the breast tissue, to the heart, to the lungs and is a much better approach.
SHARYN ALFONSI: (VO) 초기 결과는 고무적입니다. 기존의 방사선 치료를 받았던 유방암 환자들과 단 한 차례 방사선 치료를 받았던 환자들이 거의 동일한 재발률을 보였습니다. 하지만 현재 진행중인 이 연구가 상당히 제한적이다. 지난 4년 동안에 걸쳐 2천 명의 여성들만 대상으로 했을 뿐이다라는 비판도 나오고 있습니다.
Initial results are encouraging. Breast cancer patients who had traditional radiation and those who had the single shot of radiation had roughly the same number of recurrences. But many critics say this ongoing study is very limited, pointing out, it only looks at about 2,000 women over four years.
ABC 시사 표현 연습(LESSON 2, JULY, 2010) INSTRUCTOR KIM SOO-YEON
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신장과 체중을 고려한 정상 체중에서 적어도 20%를 초과하는 사람은 비만으로 간주된다.
신경제 계획의 보다 자세한 내용이 나오거나 경영자들이 그 영향을 평가할 더 나은 기회를 가지게 되면 (경영자들의) 태도가 바뀔 수도 있다.
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야생상태에서 그 새는 20파운드까지 나가는 것도 있다.
(L/C) ABC (LESSON 2/JULY, 2010) INSTRUCTOR KIM SOO-YEON
STORY4. MOMENT OF HOPE: BATTLING BREAST CANCER
DIANE SAWYER (ABC NEWS): (OC) In medical news tonight, a lot of doctors and breast cancer patients are weighing a new study that offers a possible new approach to treating breast cancer in its early stages. Here's Sharyn Alfonsi.
SHARYN ALFONSI (ABC NEWS): (VO) Daily doses of radiation can take its toll on breast cancer patients. At best, it's exhausting. At worse, debilitating. Now, some doctors say getting a single dose of radiation during some breast cancer surgeries could be just as effective.
(VO) Normally, after a woman undergoes a lumpectomy, she has to visit a radiation center five days a week for anywhere from three to six weeks, getting a low shot of radiation each time. The alternative could be one stronger dose of targeted radiation during the surgery.
DOCTOR SUSAN LOVE (BREAST CANCER RESEARCHER): That not only saves time, but also side effects from the radiation to the breast tissue, to the heart, to the lungs and is a much better approach.
SHARYN ALFONSI: (VO) Initial results are encouraging. Breast cancer patients who had traditional radiation and those who had the single shot of radiation had roughly the same number of recurrences. But many critics say this ongoing study is very limited, pointing out, it only looks at about 2,000 women over four years.
DOCTOR LEN LICHTENFELD (AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY): We really need to have more women followed for a much longer period of time before we can really understand the implications of this treatment. This is not yet ready for primetime.
SHARYN ALFONSI: (VO) Adding to the skepticism, the company that makes the special machine used to deliver that single shot of radiation paid for some of the trial. Still, the authors say the science is solid. They're hopeful the new technology could one day make the battle against breast cancer a little easier to bear. Sharyn Alfonsi, ABC News, New York.
STORY5. FIGHTING INFECTION: FOREWARNED
DIANE SAWYER (ABC NEWS): (OC) Part of a new trend, 6 million procedures a year are performed at outpatient centers. But there's a new study showing 67% of the facilities have at least one violation when it comes to controlling infection. Sharyn Alfonsi explains.
SHARYN ALFONSI (ABC NEWS): (VO) Tonight, this doctor is facing criminal charges for what happened inside this Nevada clinic. Investigators say he encouraged employees to reuse vials of a medicine to save money. The result? Prosecutors say a hepatitis outbreak.
JENNIFER DABOLT (PATIENT): I don't think it would take a medical degree to figure out, you need to clean your utensils.
SHARYN ALFONSI: (OC) Those outpatient centers have skyrocketed in recent years. Popular for everything from foot to dental surgery. Some are associated with hospitals, but many operate completely independently, and some critics say that's the problem.
DOCTOR WILLIAM SCHAFFNER (VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER): They are not being regulated with anywhere near the thoroughness and completeness and frequency that large hospitals are.
SHARYN ALFONSI: (VO) CDC investigators found more than a quarter of the centers they inspected weren't sterilizing or disinfecting instruments correctly. And an astonishing number were using those single medication vials for more than one patient. A possible cost-cutting measure and the very thing that prosecutors say set off that hepatitis outbreak in Nevada. Many of the surgery centers may be perfectly safe. But how do you know?
DOCTOR WILLIAM SCHAFFNER: With a large medical center or large community hospital, I think there's greater assurance that their infection control procedures are, indeed, at a very high level. Beyond that, it's kind of difficult.
SHARYN ALFONSI: (VO) Lawmakers now want to mandate those surgery centers get accreditation, arguing if they want to operate like the hospitals, they need to be regulated like them. Sharyn Alfonsi, ABC News, New York.
STORY6. WHAT'S IN THE WATER: SWIMMERS BEWARE
DIANE SAWYER (ABC NEWS): (OC) But our senior medical reporter Dr Richard Besser spent the day on human health. That oil and dispersant, are they dangerous to workers and to swimmers on shore?
DOCTOR RICHARD BESSER (ABC NEWS): (VO) These people swimming in the oil contaminated waters of Gulf Shores, Alabama are making a mistake. Crude oil is known to irritate eyes, lungs, and skin. The fumes can be dangerous to anyone with heart and lung disease. But the real risk isn't for these swimmers, it's for the people out in the gulf working on the cleanup every day. The health effects of inhaling crude oil fumes are well documented.
DOCTOR GINA SOLOMON (NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL): Crude oil vapors can cause a whole array of health problems, headaches, dizziness, nausea, vomiting, shortness of breath, cough, and even wheezing, and asthma attacks.
DOCTOR RICHARD BESSER: (VO) That's just in the short term.
(VO) Long term there are even more concerns. Crude oil contains a number of substances such as benzene and naphthalene which are known to cause cancer. But the real x factor in terms of danger is the millions of gallons of dispersants used in the gulf. The effects of the mix on oil and dispersants on human health has never been studied, making these workers effectively part of a massive experiment.
DOCTOR GINA SOLOMON: We really don't know what it's going to do over even the short term, let alone the long term in the gulf.
DOCTOR RICHARD BESSER: (VO) This afternoon, I went to a mobile federal clinic specifically set up to provide health care to the responders. They say so far, though aware of reports of six cleanup workers, they have not seen anyone with oil-related illness.
(OC) For those people vacationing on the coast, keep your children out of the water. Their thin skin will absorb more of that oil. And for those with heart and lung disease, exposure to the fumes can be very dangerous. Diane?
DIANE SAWYER: (OC) Okay, Rich, thanks so much. Glad you are there.
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