英伦广角 2014-01-18 癌症发病率上升，老龄化是主因

 You make me sick. You took my mum. Cancer, are you scared? Hard-hitting, factual, one in eight women will get breast cancer. And motive¹. These are the sermons of the many cancer campaigns. Increasing awareness² of the diseases is helping³ at a time when the number of those diagnosed is at the highest ever.

Last July, fifteen-year-old Edward Scott sought urgent to advice after he realized something was wrong.

I went on the NHS website and I found that all of the symptons that were * cancer were symtons I had. So the same day I went to my mum and said, mum, there is something really wrong, I have to go get it sorted out. So I went to the GP and on the same day, I found that I just got the cancer.

Accessible information, advanced technology and scientific research means cancer is being detected earlier and those affixed⁴ a living longer. In the 1970s, 23% of the patients survived for ten years. By 2007, that figure doubled. Here the latest, city suggests that more than 330,000 people were diagnosed with some forms of the disease in 2011. That's an increase of almost 50% over a decade.

The main reason that more and more people are developing cancer every year is because we have an aging population. And because people's risk of cancer goes up very signicantly as people get older, the more old people we have in our population, the more people will develop cancer. 

Other risk factors include obesity⁵, smoking and alcohol. For now, a cure remains⁶ elusive⁷, doctors insist that healthy living remains the biggest prevention against cancer.

1 motive   

n.动机，目的；adv.发动的，运动的

参考例句：

• The police could not find a motive for the murder.警察不能找到谋杀的动机。
• He had some motive in telling this fable.他讲这寓言故事是有用意的。

2 awareness   

n.意识，觉悟，懂事，明智

参考例句：

• There is a general awareness that smoking is harmful.人们普遍认识到吸烟有害健康。
• Environmental awareness has increased over the years.这些年来人们的环境意识增强了。

3 helping   

n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的，辅助的

参考例句：

• The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
• By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。

4 affixed   

adj.[医]附着的，附着的v.附加( affix的过去式和过去分词 )；粘贴；加以；盖（印章）

参考例句：

• The label should be firmly affixed to the package. 这张标签应该牢牢地贴在包裹上。
• He affixed the sign to the wall. 他将标记贴到墙上。 来自《简明英汉词典》

5 obesity   

n.肥胖，肥大

参考例句：

• One effect of overeating may be obesity.吃得过多能导致肥胖。
• Sugar and fat can more easily lead to obesity than some other foods.糖和脂肪比其他食物更容易导致肥胖。

6 remains   

n.剩余物，残留物；遗体，遗迹

参考例句：

• He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
• The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。

7 elusive   

adj.难以表达(捉摸)的；令人困惑的；逃避的

参考例句：

• Try to catch the elusive charm of the original in translation.翻译时设法把握住原文中难以捉摸的风韵。
• Interpol have searched all the corners of the earth for the elusive hijackers.国际刑警组织已在世界各地搜查在逃的飞机劫持者。