安妮貓窩:【疾病篇】Cats do not spread brain tumours (News)
As anyone who has lost a loved one to a brain tumour knows, the disease can be devastating.
So headlines claiming that cats may be responsible for brain tumours – based on limited and tentative evidence – are not only misleading but also deeply insensitive to patients and their families.
Despite recent advances in treating brain tumours, we’re still largely in the dark about the causes of these cancers. This is partly because brain tumours are relatively rare, so studying their causes is much harder than for more common cancers, such as lung, bowel or breast.
Investigating the cause of a disease often involves delving into large sets of data and look for patterns. Sometimes these patterns turn out to be the cause itself – such as the well-knownlink between smoking and lung cancer...... |