Table 1.
Contingency table as the cancer detector
| Cancer | Benign | |
|---|---|---|
| Positive | 1284 | 422 |
| Negative | 1 | 118 |
| Sensitivity | 99.9 | |
| Specificity | 21.9 | |
| False positive | 78.1 | |
| False negative | 0.1 | |
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