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Re:Blood test that finds 50 types of cancer is accurate enou... by ssijak on Friday June 25, 2021 @09:04AM (#27630249)
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.
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Re:Blood test that finds 50 types of cancer is accurate enou... by jacquesm on Friday June 25, 2021 @11:02AM (#27631649)
Very 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.
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