Apparently, it varies by radiologist:
They found that sensitivity — the ability to accurately detect cancer — ranged from 27 percent to 100 percent. False positives ranged from 0 to 16 percent.
Those are some pretty big ranges.
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Not surprising! As an MRI frequent-flyer I can tell you that as many times as one scan is read are the differing results reported.
Very comforting.
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