Estimating the cumulative risk of false positive cancer screenings

Stuart G Baker¹ , Diane Erwin² and Barnett S Kramer³

¹  Biometry Research Group, Division of Cancer Prevention, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, U.S.A

²  Information Management Services, Inc., Rockville, Maryland, USA

³  Office of Disease Prevention, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA