1·Modern cancer care is big business, and cancer drugs are envisaged as the future cash cows of big Pharma.
现代癌症治疗是一个盘子很大的行业，抗癌症药物被认为是大型医药企业的摇钱树。
2·If you travelled in a time machine back one billion years, you would see many clumps of cells resembling modern cancer tumours.
如果你乘坐时间机器去10亿年前旅行，你会看到很多和肿瘤细胞极其相像的细胞丛。
3·Toward the end of his book-surveying the patterns thrown up by modern cancer genetics-mukherjee pauses before judging those terrible patterns "quite beautiful."
在书籍末尾评论了现代癌症遗传学所解释出来的模式后，慕克吉稍有迟疑后还是称这些可怕的模式“漂亮至极”。
4·Since inhibiting VEGF signaling has been a major target of modern cancer therapies, regulating miR-126 represents an additional approach to regulate blood vessel formation in such diseases.
既然一直vegf信号已经是现代癌症治疗中的主要靶标之一，在这些疾病中调节miR - 126就成了调节血管生成的新方法。
5·The authors of the study suggest that this means cancer is a modern disease.
该项研究的发起者因此推测这意味着癌症是一种现代病。
6·But there are important aspects of the modern American cancer world that he scarcely mentions.
但是对于现代美国癌症界的许多重要方面他却鲜有提及。
7·This is one reason that the medical historian Roy Porter wrote that cancer is “the modern disease par excellence,” and that Mukherjee calls it “the quintessential product of modernity.
医学史家罗伊·波特将其说成是“最卓越的现代病”，慕克吉称其为“现代性最典型的产物”，这就是其中一方面的原因。
8·Over the years, the strips were thawed and checked for cancer cells using the most modern methods available at the time.
这些年来，他们将组织解冻，并使用当时最先进的方法检测肿瘤细胞。
9·"Cancer is very rare in modern societies in humans under age 30," said oncologist John Glaspy at UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center.
“现代社会中，30岁以下的癌症患者非常少见，”加利福利亚大学洛杉矶分校Jonsson综合癌症中心的肿瘤学家约翰·格兰斯潘说。
10·When he decided to fight his cancer with modern medicine, he spared no expense -- including $100, 000 to have the DNA of his tumor sequenced (NYT)
乔布斯决定借助现代医学对抗癌症时，可谓不计代价——包括花费10万美元进行肿瘤DNA测序。