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What do false positives and negatives have to do with screening tests for cancer? Elizabeth Tracey reports
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A blood test used for population based cancer screening fell short of allowing cancers to be detected earlier, was cost prohibitive and delayed diagnoses for others, a new study shows. Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center director William Nelson says both …
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