Over the next day and a half, the idea of the screening trial combined with a larger study that comes later gathered steam.
It is based on what scientists learned from a large mammogram screening trial back in the 1970s that involved more than a quarter-million women.
Cancer Research UK is funding a large-scale trial to see if screening for H.pylori can identify those at risk of developing cancer.
However, a UK collaborative trial of ovarian cancer screening began a few years ago to look at the feasibility of introducing a programme.
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One of the study authors, Dr. Howard Zellen, a noted cancer clinical trial researcher, said he still recommends mammography screening.
Friends of Lana Clarkson, the actress murdered by music producer Phil Spector, have been protesting at a screening of the film about his trial.
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One trial, done in Europe, found that screening and aggressive treatment reduced relative risk of death by 20 percent, but it also found that 48 men had to be diagnosed and treated to save one life about 10 years later.
"I can't imagine a situation, given what we know now, other than a screening mechanism followed by some sort of trial for the net risk and benefit versus risk, " Califf said.
If genetic markers can also help resurrect drugs that have previously failed tests by screening out unsuitable candidates in a fresh trial, some genome firms may well claim a big chunk of the proceeds.
However, Google considers the trial a threat to freedom on the Internet because it could force providers with an impossible task - pre-screening the thousands of hours of footage uploaded every day onto websites like the Google-owned YouTube.
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