In a screening rest for Carcinoma Breast the sensitivity is 90% specificity is 98%, what is the chance of patient with Carcinoma breast to be detected negative in screening conducted in two consecutive years-
.sensitivity 90% means 90 percent of the diseased people screened for the disease will give a true positive result,and the remaining 10 percent a false negative result.specificity 98 %means 98 percent of non disease people will give true negative result nd 2 percent non disesed as diseased people. ref:park&;s textbook,ed 22,pg no 131
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