I-spy

British

noun

a game in which one player specifies the initial letter of the name of an object that he can see, which the other players then try to guess

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To confirm their clinical relevance, we studied serum samples from 192 breast cancer patients enrolled in the I-SPY 2 neoadjuvant chemotherapy trial.

From Science Daily

“We’d play ‘I-spy,’ and we’d use the snakes, birds and other animals that lived in the jungle,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times

The longest-running APT, begun in 2011, is I-SPY 2 , which evaluates new drug therapies to shrink tumors in patients with breast cancer that has spread locally.

From Scientific American

I-SPY 2 has investigated about two dozen different compounds and regimens and shown which ones hold the most promise for patients with specific types of tumors.

From Scientific American

“Real-time data reporting is something that’s really novel,” says oncologist Tufia Haddad of the Mayo Clinic, who works on traditional trials as well as on I-SPY 2.

From Scientific American

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