SKIN CANCER AAA A number of promising studies are under way to find better cancer treatments -and even preventives. Researchers are_1__a dietary approach, 2 _ beta carotene and vitamins C and Efo__3__ who have already had _4__ basal or squamous-cell_5_ in hopes of preventing 5 __6__. Low doses of retinoids compounds __7__ vitamin A- have been found in some __8__to reverse malignant cells in_9__ culture and are now being __10__on patients at several medical —11__ around the United States. In melanoma, the _12_ofinterleukin-2to _13_ the immune system, reported _14_December by the National Cancer 10 Institute, _15__ regressions in some patients with advanced _16_ As with other forms of __17__, monthly self-examination may be one of the _18__ ways to lower the toll. _19_ advise people to look at themselves in a full-length __20__and also to use a hand mirror for _21__ the back and hard-to-see places like behind the 22 _ and the 15 soles of the _23_. Inthe course of such _24_, people should be on the __25__not only for cancer but for precancerous _26 _ called solar keratoses. These __27__ usually appear as reddish-brown spots 28 _ a scaly crust. Luckily, a dermatologist can _29_ remove them by using @ _30_, liquid nitrogen spray or by applying the anticancer 31_ 20 5+fiuoracil to the skin. “Keratoses might _32__ there for 20 years and not do anything”, _33__Lewohl, “but...i's a wise 34 _ to have them taken off.” The __35__ warning sign of melanoma is change in a mole- whether in color, shape, size or thickness. 1. a) testing 3. a) researchers ) putting aside b) doctors, ©) thinking of ©) people 2. a) suppressing 4.) one ) giving b) no ©) existing ©) died from 1365. a) excision ) treatment ©) cancer 6 a) cures b} recurrences ) lumps 7. a) similar to 'b) different from ) destroyed by 8. a) melanoma ) operations ©) tests 9 a) tissue ) retinoids c} metastasis 10. a) identified b) tried ¢) objected 11, a) centers b) studies ©) offices 12. a) persistence b) use ©) suppression 18, a) analyze b) stimulate ©) weaken 14. a) before b) next ) last 18 16. 17. 18 19, 20. 21 22, 24, a) stops b) promotes ©) presents a) disease b) treatment ©) ‘mutations a) cancer b) test ©) cell a) clinic b) advanced ©) best a) Patients, b) Dermatologists, ©) Surgery a) mirror b} lesion ©) observation a) curing b) checking ©) protecting a) mirror b) hands ©) ears a) feet ) shoes ©) moles a) exposure b) scrutiny ©) selection 13725, 26. 27. 28, 29, 138 2) protection ) prevention ©) watch a) growths b) cells ©) experts a) parts b) stages ©) lesions a) behind b) with ©) away from a) hardly b) never ¢) easily 30. at 92, 34, 36. a) curet, b) diet ©) vitamin a) drug b) operation ) melanoma a) evolve ') disappear ©) sit a) research b) essays ¢) agrees a) thing b) development ©) information ) unusual b) major ©) additional