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PPV

Term · Oncology and biomedicine · MLC-T-ONC-006859

  1. The likelihood that a person who has a positive test result does have the disease, condition, biomarker, or mutation (change) in the gene being tested. The PPV is a way of measuring how accurate a specific test is. Also called positive predictive value.

  2. The likelihood that an individual with a positive test result truly has the particular gene and/or disease in question. Also called positive predictive value.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-ONC-006859
FieldOncology and biomedicine
Expansionspositive predictive value
ReferencesNCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms; NCI Dictionary of Genetics Terms
Record as JSON
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  "field": "Oncology and biomedicine",
  "definitions": [
    "The likelihood that a person who has a positive test result does have the disease, condition, biomarker, or mutation (change) in the gene being tested. The PPV is a way of measuring how accurate a specific test is. Also called positive predictive value.",
    "The likelihood that an individual with a positive test result truly has the particular gene and/or disease in question. Also called positive predictive value."
  ],
  "expansions": [
    "positive predictive value"
  ],
  "references": [
    "NCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms",
    "NCI Dictionary of Genetics Terms"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/oncology/ppv/"
}

Record 13,550 of 17,721 in Oncology and biomedicine terminology (MLC-0111). Request the full dataset.