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阅读下文,回答题。Skill Cancer
Melanoma(黑素瘤),the deadliest kind of skin cancer is now the most common cancer in 1 British women,the country’S leading cancer organization said Wednesday.Skin cancer has 2 cervical(子宫颈的)cancer as the top cancer striking women in their 20s,according to the latest data from Cancer Research United Kingdom.
The trend is particularly 3 since younger people are not generally those most susceptible(易患的)to melanoma.Rates of skin cancer are 4 highest in people over age 75.
But experts worry that increasing numbers of younger people being diagnosed with skin cancer could be tlle 5 of a dangerous trend.Women in their 20s make 6 a small percentage of all patients diagnosed with melanoma in Britain,but nearly a third of all cases occur in people younger than 50.
Based on current numbers Cancer Research UK predicts that melanoma will become the fourth 7 common cancer for men and women of all ages by 2024,and that cases will jump from about 90,000 cases a year to more than l5,500.
Cancer expegs 8 the rising number of skin cancer cases largely to the surge in people using tanning saions.“Spending time on sun beds is just as 9 as staying out too long in the sun.”said Caroline Cerny of Cancer Research UK.The organization is starting a SunSmart 10 to warn Britons of the dangers of being too bronzed.
“The intensity of ultraviolet rays in some sun beds can be more than 10 11 stronger than the midday sun,”Cerny said.
In the United States,several states require parental approval 12 minors Can use tanning salons.Wisconsin bans people l6 and 13 from using tanning beds,and others ban children under l4.At least 29 states have regulations governing minors use of tanning salons.
In the UK,Scottish politicians passed legislation banning these under 18 from using tanning beds,though it hasn’t yet been implemented.There are no plans for 14 in the rest of the UK. The world Health Organization has previously recommended that tanning beds be regulated because of their potential to damage DNA in the skin.
Experts said most deadly skin cancers could be 15 if people took the proper precautions when in the sun and avoided tanning beds.
请在1处填写正确答案。 A.young
B.married
C.middle—aged
D.elderly
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