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After three years of screening for multiple cancers, about half of patients will have a false positive result.[1]

References

  1. Croswell, Jennifer Miller et. al. "Cumulative incidence of false-positive results in repeated, multimodal cancer screening." Annals of family medicine 7: 212-22 - Abstract

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