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Seer


Definition:

  • (a.) Sore; painful.
  • (n.) One who sees.
  • (n.) A person who foresees events; a prophet.

Example Sentences:

  • (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.

Speer


Definition:

  • (n.) A sphere.
  • (v. t.) To ask.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Speer said if Dhu had been correctly diagnosed on either of her earlier trips to hospital and given appropriate antibiotics it would have prolonged and, depending on how early they were given, possibly saved her life .
  • (2) Had she been taken to hospital at 7am that morning, when she told police she could not feel her legs and wanted to go to hospital, there may have been some chance of survival, though Speers said at that point her hopes would have rested as much on intervention to help her falling blood pressure than on antibiotics.
  • (3) The years peeled away and I realised that I was listening to an interview I had once done with, of all people, Albert Speer, Hitler's long-since-dead architect.
  • (4) Speers asks what are these non-legislative measures you will take to reduce spending?
  • (5) But there is no doubt who Hitler's architect was: Albert Speer.
  • (6) Dr Sandra Thompson, an expert in Indigenous health, and Dr David Speer, an expert in microbiology and infectious diseases like staphylococcal infection, both told the coroner that a chest x-ray would have been an ordinary test to perform and would have picked up the infection.
  • (7) The site was laid out by Albert Speer Jr, son of Hitler’s architect, who also planned the Beijing Olympics – a strangely prescient choice, given his father coined the idea of “ruin value” in his grandiose Nazi works.
  • (8) Speers asks about other colleagues within the union movement.
  • (9) That person, implausibly enough, was Albert Speer, a young architect in his 20s from Mannheim, who at the time he met the Führer had built nothing of the least interest.
  • (10) In his private moments, Speer undoubtedly thought he fitted perfectly into the noble neo-classical Prussian tradition whose canonical exponent was Karl-Friedrich Schinkel (1781-1841), designer of scores of buildings including the Schauspielhaus and the Altes Museum in Berlin.
  • (11) The pavilion itself, a power-temple designed by Hitler's architect Albert Speer in 1938, acts as a tyrannical shell for a reconstruction of the Kanzlerbungalow, or Chancellor's Bungalow, built in Bonn in 1964 by modernist architect Sep Ruf.
  • (12) Following the prior work of Rosenberg et al, Rosenberg and VanCamp, and Speer et al, we started clinical trials with cis-dichlorodiammineplatinum(II) in April 1971.
  • (13) Sky News political editor David Speers asks Howes about the current position of Workplace Minister Bill Shorten.
  • (14) No credit was given to Speer, who was dead by then.
  • (15) It seemed a shame not to use it, and so it became the basis of a film about Speer, largely in his own words.
  • (16) I was with Speer when he paid his first visit to the Zeppelinfeld at Nürnberg, long after the war.
  • (17) Since the isolation of a recombinant containing a cDNA sequence for human phenylalanine hydroxylase (hPH) (Woo et al., 1983; Speer et al., 1986) prenatal diagnosis by linked restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLPs) has become possible for families in which phenylketonuria (PKU) occurs (Lidsky et al., 1985a).
  • (18) These had since been moved indoors into a large sun room, and Speer, anticipating our arrival, had picked out some of the better goodies.
  • (19) Her reaction is as unlikely as the sight of Albert Speer, in another scene, shifting uncomfortably when Hitler congratulates himself on having cleansed Germany of the "Jewish poison".
  • (20) Japan was initially deeply reluctant to work with Australian shipbuilder ASC or share technology, but Sky news reporter David Speers, who is on a Japanese-government funded trip to Japan, reported on Tuesday that Japan was now “willing to partner with the ASC even though this would require sharing sensitive military technology in an unprecedented manner”.

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