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Posted on 19/05/08

Accuracy system for cancer tests flawed: experts

With files from Carly Weeks

A U.S.-based quality-assurance program used by more than 6,000 North American labs to check pathologists' accuracy with sensitive cancer tests has a flawed grading system that makes some doctors appear more proficient than they are, says one of the world's leading experts on the tests.

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