Prevalence and alternative explanations influence cancer diagnosis: An experimental study with physicians.

Miroslav SirotaOlga KostopoulouThomas RoundShyamalee Samaranayaka

Published in: Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association (2017)

These findings confirm the probabilistic nature of the diagnosis generation process and validate the application of the HyGene model to early cancer detection. Increasing the salience of cancer-such as listing cancer as a diagnostic possibility-during the initial hypothesis generation phase may improve early cancer detection. (PsycINFO Database Record

Keyphrases

papillary thyroid
squamous cell
lymph node metastasis
childhood cancer
functional connectivity
real time pcr
adverse drug
sensitive detection