Name: Blood test for 50 cancers: BBC News Review
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A new blood test can identify more than fifty types of cancer.

Not only that, in eighty five percent of cases,

it correctly located the source of the disease.

The test works by looking for changes in the genetic code of cancers.

Researchers at Oxford University, where the trial took place,

say results have been encouraging soo far,

Multi-cancer blood test shows real promise in NHS study.

So the headline says that this blood test shows promise.

It means to say that you're going to do something. But together with show is it different?

Yep, so with 'show' it is a two word expression.

It means that something is on the way to being successful.

So the headline is saying that this blood test shows promise.

We can also say 'shows a lot of promise'.

Yes, well, you can use 'show promise' quite widely, for example

I heard you practising your Spanish earlier,

Beth and it shows promise - muchas gracias.

I heard you practising your singing. Your singing is is showing promise.

I'm not going to sing. Let's look at that again.

with miracle blood test that can detect fifty types of cancer.

OK, this headline again is about this new blood test that can detect cancer.

The word we're looking at is 'miracle'. Now, Beth.

I thought a miracle was connected to religious things

like walking on water or making something dead

yeah, but we can also use it more widely.

So a miracle is a very big achievement and often something quite unusual.

So, for example, maybe your team is losing really badly at half time.

But then they bring it back and they win. It's a miracle.

Yes, and we can use 'miracle' as an adjective, as in the headline.

And it's used to describe something which is incredible.

A miracle blood test. Yeah, that's right.

If someone's trying really hard to get pregnant and then they achieve it.

This is from the Express. Major cancer breakthrough as world's

first blood test can detect fifty types of disease.

So the headline says this blood test is a major breakthrough

a breakthrough is a very important discovery or event,

It describes the blood test as 'world-first'

and 'first', but when we put them together.

'world's-first' means very important because it's the first in the world

and is also used to show incredible new achievements like this blood test.

So other examples in the world of DNA the cloning of Dolly the sheep

was a world-first and also the astronauts landing on the Moon

and take note, we can put world-first before or after the noun, for example,

first blood test or we can say this blood test is a world-

We've had 'show promise', show signs of future success.

'Miracle' describes something incredible.

Very important because it's never been done before.

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