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Read the text. Put the verbs in brackets into the right form. State the types and functions of the Participles in the text.
NEW GEL COULD REDUCE SKIN CANCER DEATHS
By Rachel Ellis
MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT
NEW treatment which could help prevent thousands of skin cancer cases a year will be _________ (launch) in Britain this week.
The gel, _________ (develop) by scientists at King's College in London, treats a common condition _________ (call) solar keratosis which, if _______ (leave) ________ (untreat), can develop into skin cancer.
Over the past 20 years the number of people _________ (suffer) from skin cancer in this country has _______ (double).
The most dangerous form – melanoma – affects 5,372 people a year and kills 1,640. Non-melanoma skin cancers are responsible for 40,000 cases and 267 deaths.
More than 230 people a day develop solar keratosis – dry, scaly or dark patches of skin, usually on the scalp, face, forearms and backs of hands. While the lesions present no real danger, they may become a squamous cell carcinoma – the second most common form of skin cancer – if ________ (untreat).
Research has ________ (show) that three out of four people who use the gel, _______ (call) Solaraze, have significant or complete improvement in theircondition.
Professor Rona MacKie, a consultant dermatologist at Glasgow Western Infirmary, said: 'Early and effective treatment of solar keratosis is desirable to try to prevent the potential progression to skin cancer.
'With more cases _______ (diagnose) every year, this offers another useful approach to prevention.'
Until now, treatment of solar keratosis has _________ (involve) procedures such as freezing the lesion with liquid nitrogen or chemotherapy ________ (apply) to the skin. While thetreatments are usually effective, theycan cause inflammation and blistering.
The elderly and outdoor workers are at greatest risk of developing thecondition, which is more common inmen.
The key ingredient inSolaraze is diclofenac, which has _______ (use) to treat rheumatism, according to makers Hertfordshire-based Bioglan Laboratories.
Britain is the first country to benefit fromthe gel, which will be available on prescription. It will ________( launch) in other European countries and the United States later this year.
VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR FOCUS
Match the words in the left and right columns to restore the collocations from the text.
| 1. to be available 2. to develop 3. to have significant improvement 4. the potential 5. useful approach 6. to treat 7. to cause 8. to be 9. freezing 10. dry, scaly | a) in the condition b) to prevention c) a common condition d) on prescription e) inflammation f) at greatest risk of g) progression to h) into skin cancer i) patches of skin j) the lesion with smth |
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