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Re:Blood test that finds 50 types of cancer is accurate enou... by colinmhayes on Friday June 25, 2021 @05:19PM (#27636400)
What happens when it turns out that most of the people having surgery don't have cancer? Because that's the reality of tests with a .5% false positive rate if less than 1% of the population is positive.
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