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The test in the article actually has very few false positives. And who knows, maybe even those false positives were just extremely early cases of cancer.
by ssijak 5y ago
The test in the article actually has very few false positives. And who knows, maybe even those false positives were just extremely early cases of cancer.
- jacquesm 5y agoVery few false positives: 0.5% false positive rate times 1,000,000 people screened translates into 5,000 false positives, which is in absolute terms not a small number. Those will take away resources from symptomatic patients.