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Comment by konschubert

If you’re tested positive, what’s the probably that you actually have cancer?

(The article states 0.5% false positive rate and about 50% true positive rate, but I would need to know the the prevalence of cancer in the population to compute what I am asking for).

parent konschubert 5 years ago

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