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From: Identifying incident oral and pharyngeal cancer cases using Medicare claims

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Receiver operating characteristics (ROC) curve for scores based on Medicare claims for identifying incident oral and pharyngeal cancer cases*. *Reference lines indicated: for the initial cut-point score (>0 indicating the algorithm identifying as an OP cancer case) had a sensitivity of 93.9% and specificity of 96.2%; the sensitivity and specificity for the minimum Euclidean distance cut-point (>5.48) were 93.8% and 97.1%, respectively; and for the cut-point that maximized specificity (>37.43), sensitivity was 75.0% and specificity was 99.3%.

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