as in survival
uninterrupted or lasting life
The two became close friends after sharing the same journey of survivorship from cancer.
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The team used this data to create what are known as survivorship curves – essentially, plotting a graph of how many individuals survive to each age.
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Michael Irving, New Atlas, 29 Dec. 2024
Property is treated as a covered bequest when acquired by reason of a covered expatriate's death including property rights passing under a right of survivorship, annuity payments, property subject to a general power of appointment, and life insurance proceeds.
—Virginia La Torre Jeker, J.d., Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025
Current approaches to drug development, including those using AI, may have fallen into a survivorship bias trap, overly focusing on less critical aspects of the process while overlooking major problems that contribute most to failure.
—Christian MacEdonia, The Conversation, 3 Jan. 2025
Aside from those outside services, family engagement and support can have huge bearing on how children fare through treatment and survivorship, says Dr. Saro Armenian, director of the Childhood, Adolescent and Young Adult Survivorship Program at City of Hope Children's Cancer Center in Los Angeles.
—Yuki Noguchi, NPR, 8 Dec. 2024
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Michael Irving, New Atlas, 29 Dec. 2024
Property is treated as a covered bequest when acquired by reason of a covered expatriate's death including property rights passing under a right of survivorship, annuity payments, property subject to a general power of appointment, and life insurance proceeds.
—Virginia La Torre Jeker, J.d., Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025
Current approaches to drug development, including those using AI, may have fallen into a survivorship bias trap, overly focusing on less critical aspects of the process while overlooking major problems that contribute most to failure.
—Christian MacEdonia, The Conversation, 3 Jan. 2025
Aside from those outside services, family engagement and support can have huge bearing on how children fare through treatment and survivorship, says Dr. Saro Armenian, director of the Childhood, Adolescent and Young Adult Survivorship Program at City of Hope Children's Cancer Center in Los Angeles.
—Yuki Noguchi, NPR, 8 Dec. 2024
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“Survivorship.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/survivorship. Accessed 12 Apr. 2025.
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