广播电视英语短句 第 105 课：癌症护理范围-5

It caused an estimated nine hundred billion dollars in economic losses worldwide in two thousand eight. 2008 年，癌症造成全球估计 9000 亿美元的经济损失。

That was one and a half percent of the world economy, and just losses from early death and disability. 这是世界经济的 1.5% ，因早年死亡和残疾而全部损失。

The study did not estimate direct medical costs. 这份研究并未估算直接的医学损失。

But it says the productivity losses are almost twenty percent higher than for the second leading cause of economic loss, heart disease. 但表示因癌症导致的生产力损失近乎高出影响经济损失第二的心脏病的 20% 。