Fig. 3.

Time between NIPT and the cancer diagnosis. This figure shows the time in days between the blood draw for NIPT (t = 0) and the diagnosis of cancer. Time is plotted on the y-axis and on the x-axis the subgroups of patients with respectively a non-suspicious NIPT result (n = 48), and suspicious-NIPT result (n = 14). The number of NIPT results for genome-wide and targeted NIPT were taken together. The dotted line represents the connection of the mean. One patient, NIPT-18 (non-suspicious NIPT), was excluded in this analysis because the actual date of disease recurrence was not known to us. The time to cancer diagnosis was set on zero for the three patients with a cancer diagnosis within one week before NIPT. The asterisks denote the outliers.