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of patients identified through the screening program, including the noncompensab le diseases co inciclentally identified. It remains (lifficult to establish that screening programs in actual practice meet those criteria, in part because of confounders such as lead-time and length bias.
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The same is true, for example, for thyroid cancer. Because screening programs such as those being proposed to HRSA involve testing for diseases with low prevalence, false-positive rates will be high and will be accompanied by increased risks and costs associated with further testing.
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