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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2021 Sep 20;31(1):38–44. doi: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-21-0380

Table 3.

Expected number of women potentially exposed to unnecessary confirmation tests (EUC), expected cancers detected (CD), expected lives saved (LS), and harm-benefit tradeoffs EUC/CD and EUC/LS per 1,000 women tested with a multi-cancer test for breast, colorectal, liver, lung, pancreatic, and ovary cancers assuming 99% specificity and a common 10% mortality reduction associated with screening for each cancer.

Screening age, y EUC, n CD, n LS, n EUC/CD EUC/LS
50 10.4 11.7 0.7 0.9 14.2
60 11.0 22.1 1.9 0.5 5.7
70 11.6 33.1 3.9 0.4 3.0