Question 68 · LEK · Diagnostic sensitivity and specificity
Let us assume that a new screening test was prepared to detect ovarian cancer. The chart below shows the frequency of its results. Which of the following is true if we take as a referential value the result of 0-30 µg/dL?
- A. test is in 100% specific.
- B. test is in 100% sensitive.
- C. some healthy women will have a false-positive result.
- D. all women with cancer will have a positive result.
- E. all women with cancer will have a negative result.
Hint
Check where all the healthy women's results lie relative to 30 µg/dL and where the curve for women with cancer begins.
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