Pre-reading questions:
- Do you often read about health in the newspaper?
- What is the best way to stay healthy?
Medicines used to fight cancer can also cause heart problems. Less than one percent of patients taking them have experienced heart problems. They cause damages to the body and the heart. Doctors are still working to find a cure for those heart problems caused by cancer drugs.
Vocabulary:
cancer – [noun] a serious disease caused by cells that are not normal and that can spread to one or many parts of the body
cure – [noun] something that stops the disease
drug – [noun] a medicine
True or False:
- Medicines used to fight cancer can also cause lung problems.
- They can cure heart problems, too.
- More than twenty-one percent of patients taking them have experienced heart problems.
- They cause damages the body.
- Doctors are still working to find a cure for the heart problems caused by cancer drugs.