underdetection
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]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 New York Times[1]:
- "But this study says that in these very disadvantaged men, there is underdetection and undertreatment, that the cancers are not being found early enough."