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Table 4 Most important 15 words (including nonstandard English words) (ranked by importance) for ICD-9 codes 174

From: EHR phenotyping via jointly embedding medical concepts and words into a unified vector space

ICD-9: 174 (Female breast cancer)

Word

Description

Xeloda

A prescription medicine used to treat people with cancer

Tamoxifen

A medication that is used to prevent breast cancer

Metastatic

A pathogenic agent’s spread from an primary site to a different site

Chemotherapy

A treatment by the use of chemical substances

Cancer

A disease in which abnormal cells divide uncontrollably and destroy body tissue

Carboplatin

It is used to treat ovarian cancer

Onc

Abbreviations of oncologist

Oncologist

A doctor who treats cancer

Taxol

It belongs to a class of chemotherapy drugs is the abnormal buildup of fluid in the abdomen

Chemo

Short form of chemotherapy

Gemcitabine

Gemcitabine is an anti-cancer

Mets

Abbreviations of metastasis

Compazine

This medication is used to treat severe nausea

Palliative

A medical care for relieving pain

Metastases

The development of secondary malignant growths