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That's a lot of false positives. If 4% of people actually have one of these cancers at any point in time (a number that seems quite high) that means that 20% of positive results would be false in the general population.


It's still extremely useful, even with those false positive rates. You will scare a few people, but they will just retest and maybe will improve their lifestyle.


Yeah, stats are hard :)




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