News tagged with positive predictive value
Symptoms have little value for early detection of ovarian cancer
Use of symptoms to trigger a medical evaluation for ovarian cancer does not appear to detect early-stage ovarian cancer earlier and would likely result in diagnosis in only 1 out of 100 women in the general population with ...
Jan 28, 2010 |
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Alternative to pap test does not appear to be better for detecting cervical cancer
A Dutch study that included nearly 90,000 women finds that liquid-based cytology, a commonly used alternative to conventional Pap tests, is not superior to Pap tests for the detection of cervical cancer precursors or cancer, ...
Oct 27, 2009 |
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Older adults often inaccurately report their own stroke history
The responses of older adults who are asked whether they had a stroke frequently do not agree with diagnoses obtained by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the brain, according to a report posted online today that will appear ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
May 11, 2009 |
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