Your patient’s mammogram is positive for breast cancer which hasa fairly low rate in your state of 1 case per 1,000 women annually.You know from the literature that the mammogram test has asensitivity of around 92% and a specificity of 95% depending on thestudy. What do you tell your patient when she asks do I have breastcancer.
Show your work in both a contingency table and using theshortcut Bayes Theorem.