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Isn't this exactly why the headline reads "blood test good enough to be rolled out"?

I.e., higher FP rate, and it wouldn't be rolled out.




IIRC, the actual article says they're going to do a large trial, with 150k people, and someone in the article expresses skepticism that the estimated FP rate of 0.5% is accurate, because so far it was tested in people where there's some evidence of cancer.




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