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. 2023 Dec 5;35(4):285–295. doi: 10.1515/medgen-2023-2055

Table 1:

Population-based retrospective series investigating the association between discordant NIPT results and maternal malignancies

type of reported maternal malignancies

solid cancer type

hematological cancer type

Reference

type of test

number of NIPT tests

NIPT tests suspicious of maternal cancer

malignancies reported (in those with follow-up)

detection rate of cancers in pregnancy

PPV (%)

time NIPT to cancer diagnosis (days)

breast cancer

cervical cancer

ovarian cancer

liver cancer

colorectal cancer

lung cancer

lymphoma, type not specified

Hodgkin lymphoma

non-Hodgkin lymphoma

follicular lymphoma

T-cell lymphoma

multiple myeloma

chronic myeloid leukemia

acute myeloid leukemia

other malignancies or not specified

Goldring et al.

[17]

SNP–based technology, targeted analysis

2.004.428

38

20 (30)

1 : 100.221

66,7

0–330

(median 210)

5

1

3

6

4

1

Heesterbeek et al.

[14]

sequencing, genome-wide analysis

168.452

48

16 (48)

1 : 10.528

33,3

567 or less (median 35)

4

1

7

4

1

1

sequencing, targeted analysis

63.444

3

2 (3)

1 : 31.722

66,7

Lenaerts et al.

[19]

sequencing, genome-wide analysis

88.294

15

11 (15)

1 : 8.027

73,3

6–57

(median 32)

2

1

3

3

1

1

Ji et al.

[16]

sequencing, genome-wide analysis

1.930.000

639

41 (542)

1 : 47.073

7,6

0–366

(median 115)

10

1

9

7

1

9

4

Dharajiya et al.

[15]

sequencing, targeted analysis

450.000

55

18 (43)

1 : 25.000

41,9

na

4

1

4

1

1

1

1

1

4

Bianchi et al.

[13]

sequencing, targeted analysis

125.426

na

10 (na)

1 : 12.543

na

21 – 273 (median 84)

1

1

3

1

4

na, not available; PPV, positive predictive value; SNP, single nucleotide polymorphism