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An application of Bayes Rule to mammograms
I think the false negative rate is wrong in that post. The original source says
Which suggests to me that P(negative|cancer) is not 1/1000 but 1/(actual cancer rate per thousand) which appears to be around 1/4 from the numbers in the paper. The false negative rate given here of 'up to 20%' seems much more in line with that interpretation than does the 1/1000 false negative rate.
The wording of the original report is quite misleading as it suggests the false negative rate increases with age but I think they actually mean that the number of false negatives per 1000 increases (because the cancer rate is increasing). The other link suggests that P(negative|cancer) is higher with younger women due to firmer breast tissue making it harder to distinguish a tumor from healthy tissue. Other pages I found through Google suggested the same.