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Table 2 Performance of individual and combined biomarkers in detecting recurrent ovarian cancer

From: VCAM-1 complements CA-125 in detecting recurrent ovarian cancer

 

AUC (95% CI)

SN (%)

SP (%)

Healthy controls vs primary OvCa

 IL-6 R alpha

0.618 (0.492–0.743)

21.7&

85

 GDF-15

0.737 (0.624–0.849)

43.5#

85

 IL-6

0.739 (0.626–0.852)

41.3$

85

 GDF-15 + IL-6 + IL-6 R alpha

0.844 (0.758–0.930)

65.2

85

Healthy controls vs recurrent OvCa

 IL-6 R alpha

0.650 (0.519–0.782)

30.4&

83

 IL-6

0.801 (0.685–0.916)

50.0&

83

 GDF-15

0.856 (0.771–0.942)

69.6#

83

 GDF-15 + IL-6 + IL-6 R alpha

0.904 (0.829–0.979)

84.8

83

Primary vs recurrent OvCa

 CA-125

0.700 (0.551–0.848)

37.5#

83

 VCAM-1

0.729 (0.580–0.879)

58.3

83

 CA-125 + VCAM-1

0.813 (0.687–0.938)

70.8

83

  1. OvCA ovarian cancer, AUC area under curve, CI confidence interval, SN sensitivity, SP specificity. One-sided McNemar test comparing sensitivity against individual markers: *p < 0.05; #p < 0.01; $p < 0.001; &p < 0.0001