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小编给你一个美联英语官方免费试听课申请链接： /test/waijiao.aspx?tid=16-73675-0 美联英语提供：影视英语 切除卵巢 我做出了艰难但明智的决定 切除卵巢LOS ANGELES — TWO years ago I wrote about my choice to have a preventive double mastectomy. A simple blood test had revealed that I carried a mutation in the BRCA1 gene. It gave me an estimated 87 percent risk of breast cancer and a 50 percent risk of ovarian cancer. I lost my mother, grandmother and aunt to cancer. 洛杉矶——两年前，我写过一篇文章，解释自己为何选择进行预防性的双侧乳腺切除术。一次简单的血检揭示出，我是BRCA1基因突变携带者。因此，我罹患乳癌的风险估计达87%，而患卵巢癌的风险有50%。我的母亲、外祖母和姨妈均死于癌症。 I wanted other women at risk to know about the options. I promised to follow up with any information that could be useful, including about my next preventive surgery, the removal of my ovaries and fallopian tubes. 当时，我想让其他同样有患癌风险的女性了解可以作何选择。我许下了诺言，会跟进任何可能有用的讯息，包括我接下来要做的预防性手术——摘除卵巢和输卵管。 I had been planning this for some time. It is a less complex surgery than the mastectomy, but its effects are more severe. It puts a woman into forced menopause. So I was readying myself physically and emotionally, discussing options with doctors, researching alternative medicine, and mapping my hormones for estrogen or progesterone replacement. But I felt I still had months to make the date. 那时候，我计划这么做已经有一段时间了。相比切除乳腺，这个手术没那么复杂，但后果却更为严重。它会让一个女人提前绝经。所以，我一直在从生理到心理上做准备，和医生探讨各种选择，研究替代疗法，筹划我要使用的雌激素和黄体酮替代药物。不过，我原本觉得，这一天到来之前，自己还有不少时间。 Then two weeks ago I got a call from my doctor with blood-test results. “Your CA-125 is normal,” he said. I breathed a sigh of relief. That test measures the amount of the protein CA-125 in the blood, and is used to monitor ovarian cancer. I have it every year because of my family history. 然而两周前，我接到了医生的电话，告知血检结果。“你的CA-125指标正常，”他说。我舒了一口气。这个检查测的是血液中的CA-125蛋白含量，用来监控是否有卵巢癌的迹象。因为家庭的病史，我每年都做这项检查。 But that wasn’t all. He went on. “There are a number of inflammatory markers that are elevated, and taken together they could be a sign of early cancer.” I took a pause. “CA-125 has a 50 to 75 percent chance of missing ovarian cancer at early stages,” he said.