underdetection
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underdetection (uncountable)
- Detection at excessively low levels, or at levels lower than are actually the case
- 2009 January 13, Nicholas Bakalar, “Prognosis: Left Behind in Prostate Cancer Screening”, in The New York Times[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 November 2022:
- "But this study says that in these very disadvantaged men, there is underdetection and undertreatment, that the cancers are not being found early enough."
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