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Yeah, now break out the prevalence of each of their 21 cancer types in the population. The overall cancer prevalence is only 0.4%, so, b-school math (not to be
by killjoywashere 4y ago
Yeah, now break out the prevalence of each of their 21 cancer types in the population. The overall cancer prevalence is only 0.4%, so, b-school math (not to be used in actual calculations) is 0.02%. With a 99% specificity and a 80% sensitivity, you're going to get a lot of false positives and a lot of false negatives. Oy vey.