問題詳情

You may have noticed thermography (thermal imaging technology) is being offered to women as a breast cancer screeningoption. Breast thermography uses infra-red imaging to detect changes in skin temperature, and produce “heat pictures” of the breast.The 31 is that skin overlying a breast tumor will be warmer than that of surrounding areas.When it comes to thermography, breast screening experts and radiologists advise women to be 32 . “Thermography hasbeen promoted for many years in newspapers and online, 33 it very hard for women to know what is an evidence-based andeffective screening test,” says Dr. Liz Wylie, medical director of BreastScreen in Australia. Dr. Wylie considers thermography a“remarkably poor” way of looking for breast cancer. “It has been extensively evaluated and found to be unable to 34 60percent of significant breast lesions,” she says. Research shows that a tumor has to be large—several centimeters in diameter—beforeit can be detected by thermography. Screening mammograms, 35 , can detect breast cancers of a much smaller size, catchingit in the early stages.
31.
(A) problem
(B) background
(C) judgement
(D) rationale

參考答案

答案：D
難度：適中0.545455
統計：A(3),B(1),C(6),D(12),E(0)

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