Sentence examples for trial of screening from inspiring English sources

Van Leeuwen and colleagues compared the benefits of screening by baseline PSA level in a screened group in the European Randomized trial of Screening for Prostate Cancer (ERSPC), of which the Gothenburg study is a component, with a non-screened population in Northern Ireland.

The first randomized clinical trial of screening found that the strategy did not reduce the rate of colonization and infection by MRSA in intensive care units, according to results presented at a conference last year.

It's the same debate that's gone on in medicine since 1971, when the very first large-scale, randomized trial of screening mammography found that it saved the lives only of women aged 50 or older.

Suppose we wish to design a randomized trial of screening in this population.

In a recently reported trial of screening for ovarian cancer, the yield was around one cancer per 2000 women screened.

This will be a prospective diagnostic trial of screening for prostate cancer among men with genetic predisposition.

In a typical randomized trial of cancer screening, screening is offered for a limited time and subjects are followed after screening has stopped.

"This study corroborates the results of the clinical trials of screening mammography," said Dr. Daniel B. Kopans, director of breast imaging at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and an advocate of screening mammography.

In the latest challenge, two Danish researchers who reviewed the major clinical trials of screening mammography declared that five of the seven trials were flawed and that none demonstrated that it saved lives.

Controlled studies led to the discovery that bloodletting is harmful rather than helpful, and randomized trials of screening mammography would therefore be a worthy gold standard to answer once and for all the question of whether the test saves lives.

Unfortunately, no trials of screening strategies for lung cancer have shown a mortality benefit, and as a result, no major medical organization currently recommends screening.