- Lung cancer is a very serious disease.
- Scientists want to find better treatments.
- Researchers made a new medical therapy.
- They tested this medicine in mice.
- The medicine made tumors much smaller.
- The treated mice lived longer.
- There were no bad side effects.
- Scientists want to test humans next.
Difficult words
- disease — an illness that makes people or animals sick
- treatment — medical care to help a sick person get welltreatments
- therapy — a special way to heal an illness or pain
- scientist — a person who studies and works in scienceScientists
- tumor — an unhealthy mass of cells in the bodytumors
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- Do you like reading news about science and health?
- Why is finding new medicine important for people?
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