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Researchers at University College London say they've found an early indicator of fatal breast cancer.
倫敦大學學院的研究人員稱，他們發現了一種致命乳腺癌的早期指標。
They say the development could help doctors make diagnoses one year earlier - even before mammograms - than current screening methods for the disease.
他們說，與當前的疾病篩查方法相比，這種發展可以幫助醫生早一年，甚至在乳房x光檢查之前，診斷出這種疾病。
Researchers used blood serum samples from almost 1,000 women.
研究人員使用了近1000名女性的血清樣本。
They looked for the presence of carbon and hydrogen molecules attached to a chunk of DNA called EFC#93.
他們研究了名為efc# 93的DNA塊上是否有碳和氫分子附著。
The method helped to identify cancer in 43 percent of women who were diagnosed six months later.
6個月后確診的女性中，43%都是由這個方法幫助發現癌癥的。
The presence of those attached molecules is an indicator that a person's cancer is likely to be fatal.
這些附著分子的存在表明一個人的癌癥很可能是致命的。
譯文屬可可英語原創，未經允許，不得轉載。
