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QUANTITATIVE Cancer Screening. The annual incidence of colon cancer in the United States is about 55 cases per 100,000. Because colon cancer often causes bleeding, doctors sometimes use a screening procedure called the fecal occult blood test (FOBT) to look for tiny amounts of blood in the feces. One form of this test has a specificity of about 98%, which means that when it indicates the presence of blood in the feces, the result is an error (that is, cancer is not present) only 2% of the time. Although this may seem like excellent specificity, a 2% “false positive” rate makes this test almost useless as a tool for colon cancer screening. Why?
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