A doctor gives a patient a test for a particular cancer. Before the results of the test, the only evidence the doctor has to go on is that 1 woman in 1000 has this cancer. Experience has shown that, in 99 percent of the cases in which cancer is present, the test is positive; and in 95 percent of the cases which it is not present, it is negative. If the test turns out to be positive, what probability should the doctor assign to the event that cancer is present?
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