Task6 Recognizing Details
Watch a video clip “Stem Cells Used toFight Woman’s Brain Tumor” twice and decide whether each of the statements below is TRUE (T) or FALSE (F).
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_T_ _F_ _F_ _T_ | 1. About 2,300 Americans are diagnosed with brain cancer each year and more than half that number die. 2. Jenn Vonckx was told she had 12 months to live due to the very worst brain tumor called glioblastomas 3. So far there’s been no way to use large enough amounts of chemotherapy for these types of tumors. 4. Jenn is the first patient in the world to receive stem cell therapy to fight her brain tumor. 5. Jenn said she would prefer that there would be a few people going through stem cell therapy after her. 6. It will not take long before doctors know if the experimental procedure works. 7. Jenn may be giving thousands of people with brain tumors a reason to hope. |

