Table 4.
Comparison of FLC and paraprotein methods predicting ECOG overall objective response status*
| FLC response | No. of patients | 2-month FLC response |
2-month paraprotein response |
P† | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sensitivity % | Specificity % | Risk | Sensitivity % | Specificity % | Risk | |||
| Overall population | 181 | 69 | 73 | 0.30 | 34 | 98 | 0.48 | <.001 |
| Patients with iFLC more than 10 mg/dL | 120 | 83 | 67 | 0.24 | 36 | 100 | 0.43 | .001 |
| Patients with abnormal rFLC and dFLC 5 mg/dL or more | 139 | 77 | 69 | 0.26 | 34 | 100 | 0.45 | <.001 |
Among patients with both paraprotein and FLC data after 2 months of therapy.
Risk comparison.