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> Why is "You might have cancer" even an email at all? Shouldn't that be done face to face? Not necessarily, but you’d have to phrase it as “we need to take a
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> Why is "You might have cancer" even an email at all? Shouldn't that be done face to face?
Not necessarily, but you’d have to phrase it as “we need to take a closer look”. If you’re doing population screening, you often have so many false positives that the probability that you have cancer, given that you had a positive test result, still is fairly low (for example, if 1:10,000 people have cancer, and the test is 100% reliable for those having cancer, and 99% for qthose who don’t, ≈1:100 people will be false positives, so in the group who tested positive, ≈99:100 would be false positives)