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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 May 30.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Oncol. 2010 Mar;36(3):607–616. doi: 10.3892/ijo_00000536

Table 1.

Prediction accuracy of chemosensitivity/resistance in NCI-60 cell lines using 28-gene breast cancer prognostic signature. A P-value < 0.05 represents the overall accuracy is significantly higher than that of random prediction (two-sided Z-tests).

Drug name Sensitivity
(chemoresistance)
Specificity
(chemosensitivity)
Overall Accuracy P Value
Tamoxifen 94.4% (17/18) 85.7% (12/14) 90.6% (29/32) 0.0004
Fluorouracil (5FU; part of CMF) 76.5% (13/17) 88.2% (15/17) 82.4% (28/34) 0.005
Methotrexate (part of CMF) 60.0% (12/20) 84.0% (21/25) 73.3% (33/45) 0.02
Paclitaxel (Taxol) 86.7% (13/15) 100% (11/11) 92.3% (24/26) 0.0008
Doxorubicin (Adriamycin) 100% (19/19) 77.8% (14/18) 89.2% (33/37) 0.0002
Docetaxel 94.4% (17/18) 81.3% (13/16) 88.2% (30/34) 0.0007