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Although cancer remains one of the world's leading causes of death, diagnosing it early greatly increases the chances of survival.
尽管癌症依然是导致全球主要死亡的原因之一，但迟早诊断将大大提高存活率。
In areas without well-trained pathologists, catching the disease early can be difficult.
在一些没有培训良好的病理学医生的地方，提早诊断该疾病很困难。
This new device called TINY now being tested in Uganda could change that.
这个名叫“TINY”的新设备目前在乌干达测试，它可以改变这一问题。
When someone comes to us with the skin showing possible signs of the cancer,
当有皮肤显示癌症可能性症状的人出现时，
we take off a tissue and take out DNA and then put it in this device
我们会提取组织，然后提取DNA，之后放入我们的设备中，
and see if we can grow more of that viral DNA and that is how we tell how much, whether or not you have it.
看看是否可以增加这种病毒DNA，这也就是我们获知多少，以及你是否患病的方式。
TINY is short for Tiny Isothermal Nucleic Acid Quantification System and what it does is detect cancerous tissue
“TINY”的全称是“微小恒温核酸定量系统”，它的功能是检测癌组织，
in as little as two hours instead of days. Now, for the standard pathology depending on where you go.
在两个小时就可以检测出，而不是几天，如今的标准病理依赖的是你在哪。
In a private setting you could even have a result in 3 or 4 days, or sometimes when you expedite the process
在私人场所中，你可能要等3-4天，有时如果你想加快速度，
in case you have an emergency, it could give you 3 to 5 days. But on occasion most of our patients take between 10 to 14 days.
如果你紧急的话，一般是3-5天的时间，但多数患者也会遇到10-14天的情况。
The device also makes diagnosis virtually error-free.
该设备可以让诊断变得几乎零失误。
Given the TINY method eliminating most of these steps that are prone to error,
因为该设备采取的方法省掉了大部分容易出错的步骤，
then I'm looking at TINY giving us a margin of about one per cent.
该设备的出错率大约是1%。
Right now TINY is being tested as a simple way to detect a common form of cancer called Kaposi's Sarcoma.
如今“TINY”如今被看作是一种简便的方法检测一种普遍癌症形式，名叫卡波西肉瘤。
But according to researchers, that's just the start.
但根据研究人员所说，这只是开始。
I think this device is applied all over, it can be applied all over.
我认为该设备可以应用在所有地方，可以应用在所有地方。
If you have DNA in a cell and that cell in cancerous, you could be able to use TINY.
如果细胞中有DNA，该细胞也在癌中，那么你就可以用“TINY”。
Researchers believed TINY may be available commercially in as few as five years.
研究人员相信“TINY”会在5年内进入市场。
Kevin Enochs, VOA news
凯文·恩尼科斯，VOA新闻
