Thomas Fleming, a University of Washington statistician who was a prominent skeptic about the early approval of Iressa, spent much of he meaning working out exactly how the screening trials were designed.

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There is very high certainty from well-designed trials that colon cancer screening, combined with effective follow-up and treatment of abnormal findings, reduces risk of colon cancer death by at least 35 percent and risk of getting colon cancer by 20 percent.

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From Thursday, More 4 will be screening the traditional-sounding World Sheepdog Trials.

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It is worth noting that both of these trials and several previous studies show that screening increases risk of prostate cancer diagnosis and therefore treatment.

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When people live for many years, even decades, following a cancer diagnosis, it is hard to conduct trials large enough to find any kind of survival benefit to screening or early treatment.

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The CEO Cancer Gold Standard is a result of this collaboration, and marks the first-ever accreditation process established for employers to take action in five key areas of health: diet and nutrition, physical activity, tobacco cessation, screening for early detection of cancer and access to quality medical treatment and clinical trials.

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Both trials continue, and we all hope that a true benefit to our current screening technologies is found.

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