(1) With respect to the relative case fatality rates, the complements of the relative survival rates, the eight-year rate of 19 percent for the BCDDP versus that of 35 percent for SEER connotes 46 percent fewer women dying in the BCDDP group.
(2) Standardized morbidity and mortality ratios were determined by using an expected number calculated by applying age-specific incidence rates from Rochester studies and Cancer Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End-Results Reporting (SEER) data to the person-years of follow-up.
(3) The availability of two independent sets of abstracted diagnoses on 289 cases of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL), one from the Iowa Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program and the other from an epidemiologic study in Iowa of factors affecting rural males (FARM), allowed us to determine the disagreement between abstracted diagnoses.
(4) Data were analyzed from 1110 thyroid cancer cases between 1960 and 1984 identified by the Hawaii Tumor Registry, a population-based Statistics, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) participant covering the entire state of Hawaii.
(5) The annual age-adjusted incidence rate per 100,000 person-years in Navy men was significantly lower than in the U.S. Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) population, probably due to screening and other selection factors associated with Navy service that result in a healthy worker effect.
(6) This study evaluated the characteristics of symptoms associated with stage and other extent of disease factors at diagnosis among incident cases of the endometrium (N = 98) identified in the Iowa NCI-SEER population-based cancer registry.
(7) Comparisons with the surveillance, epidemiology, and end results tumor registries (SEER) data indicate an increased relative risk of acute myelogenous leukemia following postoperative regional radiation (P less than .01) and adjuvant chemotherapy (P less than .001).
(8) From the SEER files of the NCI, 8,587 cases of breast cancer diagnosed in 1975 were analyzed.
(9) Titled Exodus, Scott's film will feature Christian Bale as the Jewish seer who leads the children of Israel out of Egypt to freedom in the promised land of Canaan.
(10) Rates for pediatric cancer in the Greater New Orleans area were compared with rates from the National Cancer Institute's SEER (Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results) Program.
(11) Incidence rates for breast cancer in South Louisiana women are 20% lower than the SEER combined rates, and rates for cancer of the uterine corpus and the ovary among white women are 43% and 32% lower respectively than the SEER averages.
(12) To determine the role of screening in this increase, trends in the incidence of in situ and invasive carcinoma of the breast were evaluated using records of the metropolitan Atlanta SEER program between 1979 and 1986.
(13) Descriptive epidemiological findings for 7,696 patients with newly diagnosed thyroid cancer reported to the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) program for the years 1973 through 1981 are summarized.
(14) There are very small differences in rates for black women between South Louisiana and SEER areas.
(15) Methods were applied to data from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program for breast and colon cancer.
(16) These findings contrasted sharply with the Iowa SEER Program classification that coded 289 (79.4%) of these cases as invasive bladder cancers.
(17) FHS and Connecticut SEER rates matched closely, with the same primary tumor sites appearing commonly in both groups.
(18) Information on histopathologic groupings, incidence of various tumor types according to age, general treatment trends and survival statistics are available from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) registries of the National Cancer Institute.
(19) The mortality rate among SEER patients was approximately 1.5 times that among CCPDS patients.
(20) Survival was shorter in the 4 SEER registries which had shipbuilding as a major industry than in the others with less potential asbestos exposure, offering weak support for the hypothesis that asbestos-exposed cases of mesothelioma have worse survival experience than other cases.
Sewer
Definition:
(n.) One who sews, or stitches.
(n.) A small tortricid moth whose larva sews together the edges of a leaf by means of silk; as, the apple-leaf sewer (Phoxopteris nubeculana)
(n.) A drain or passage to carry off water and filth under ground; a subterraneous channel, particularly in cities.
(n.) Formerly, an upper servant, or household officer, who set on and removed the dishes at a feast, and who also brought water for the hands of the guests.
Example Sentences:
(1) After visiting the H-blocks, the Catholic archbishop Cardinal Tomás Ó Fiaich compared the conditions to "the sewer pipes in the slums of Calcutta".
(2) Christmas 2013 caused 2,635 sewer blockages in Yorkshire alone.
(3) Soon, reformers known as “sanitarians” focused their attention on replacing the haphazard and unsanitary plumbing arrangements in homes and workplaces with technologically advanced public sewer systems.
(4) But nothing has been done about the stinking open sewers that run through the densely packed community and overflow whenever there is heavy rain.
(5) The use of self-topping aqua privies, discharging through sewers to oxidation ponds, has made possible the economic installation of water-carriage systems of waste disposal in low-cost high-density housing areas.In the oxidation ponds, typhoid bacteria appear to be more resistant than indicator organisms; helminths, cysts and ova settle out; there are no snails and, if peripheral vegetation is removed, mosquitos will not breed.
(6) Although the efficiency of the method was influenced by the composition and source of the sediments it was used successfully to detect viruses occurring in marine and freshwater sediments near sewer outfalls.
(7) In general, there is an improvement in chlorination, sewers and sewage-depuration equipment.
(8) Fatbergs build up on sewer roofs like mushy stalactites.
(9) In common usage, “myth” is at best the word we use to refer to amusingly preposterous urban legends – tales about albino alligators in the Manhattan sewers or the Holy Grail’s hiding place under the floor of a Paris shopping mall.
(10) No demographic risk factors were associated with the incidence of this disease including population density, median family income, crowding in housing units, percentage of households with public water supply, and percentage of households with public sewers.
(11) The apparent sources of these organisms were a residential storm sewer and a University of Wisconsin Experimental Farms' washwater drain.
(12) • Wipes, nappies, sanitary towels, rags and condoms do not break down easily and can snag on pipes, drains and the walls of sewers, leading to blockages.
(13) Inspection of the pool revealed significant plumbing defects which had allowed ingress of sewage from the main sewer into the circulating pool water.
(14) Paint and pesticides were disposed of by 10% of the households, but were dumped on the ground sewer or landfills more than 90% of the time.
(15) "So you've got open sewers, and shared toilets out in the open.
(16) Animals near the Los Angeles County sewer outfall contain over 45 times as much tDDT as animals near major agricultural drainage areas.
(17) But that’s for the future – a vast concrete sewer that may well be serviced by robots, or even drones.
(18) The effluent open sewer, situated in the north suburban district, drives into the sea the content of three maximum sewers that recollect domiciliary branches.
(19) They believed they wanted to take control and believed Britain would be better off … These kind of awful things are done by a minority who come from the sewers who want to exploit division and have their own racist agenda.” Map Halfon, who backed remain, added: “All of us need to stand up for tolerance and kindness and against any kind of division.” Police in Harlow have been given the power to order anyone involved in crime or harassment to leave The Stow.
(20) The effective energetic expenditure during a work shift was from 659 to 1020 kcal for weavers, from 740 to 1000 kcal for spinners and from 522 to 1105 kcal for sewers, which points to an uncomparable load at monomial workplaces equipped with different machines.