Word: detect
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...become an important tool in the battle against cancer because the pictures produced by MRI help detect clusters of cancerous cells and tumors...
...Although a Pap smear can detect abnormal cells before they turn malignant, 50% of women diagnosed with CERVICAL CANCER never had the test, a federal panel finds. The cancer is linked to the human papilloma virus; multiple sex partners and early sexual activity increase the risk of contracting...
...scholars sought to give voice to the Jesus they detected suppressed beneath the dogma. They did not, however, all detect the same Jesus. Harvard's Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza, for example, has located a feminist paragon who saw God as Sophia (Wisdom) and himself as her spokesperson; Fiorenza contends the later church cloaked Jesus in the Christological garb as the Son of God. Crossan, relying heavily on the apocryphal Gospels of Thomas and Peter and the secret Gospel of Mark, has posited a "Mediterranean Jewish peasant...
...biggest factor in the sharp rise of prostate-cancer diagnoses is the increasingly widespread use of the controversial PSA test, which in many cases can detect the disease early in its course, long before the tumor becomes palpable. By making early detection and treatment possible, the test could eventually reduce the number of prostate-cancer deaths. Paradoxically, it could also lead to a rise in premature or even unnecessary treatments...
...coveted market of men ages 18 to 49. Many of them are in that key demographic group that likes to think of itself as ad resistant. But for these cynics with disposable income, advertisers have been devising below-the-radar approaches for years, come-ons that are harder to detect and resist than dancing tacos or Liz galumphing through The Nanny. These are all the rebel ads and anti-ad ads of recent vintage, from former "underground" beat poet/heroin addict William Burroughs flacking for Nike to Sprite's "Image Is Nothing" campaign that attacks advertising as a bunch of lies...