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Table 6 Agreement (sensitivity, specificity) for different parameters to predict patients with stage IV from stage II + III

From: Role of circulating miRNA-17-3P as a potential diagnostic biomarker for sporadic colon cancer in Egyptian cohort

 

AUC

p

95% CI

Cutoff

Sensitivity (CI)

Specificity (CI)

PPV (CI)

NPV (CI)

L.L

U.L

miRNA

0.713*

0.010*

0.566

0.859

> 6.87

68.0 (46.5–85.1)

72.0 (50.6–87.9)

70.8 (52.56–89.0)

69.2 (51.4–86.9)

CA19.9

0.682*

0.028*

0.531

0.832

> 12

84.0 (69.6–98.4)

52.0 (32.4–71.6)

63.6 (47.2–80.1)

76.5 (56.3–96.6)

CEA

0.526

0.749

0.360

0.693

≤ 2.7

52.0 (32.4–71.6)

56 (36.54–75.5)

54.2 (34.23–74.1)

53.8 (34.7–73.0)

  1. AUC area under a curve, p value probability value, CI confidence intervals, NPV negative predictive value, PPV positive predictive value
  2. *Statistically significant at p ≤ 0.05