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. 2011 Oct 17;3(9):63. doi: 10.1186/gm279

Table 1.

Accuracies per cancer

Cancer Total correct Total samples Percent correct Sensitivity Specificity
Bladder cancer 7 11 63.6% 64% 100%
Breast cancer 11 11 100% 100% 99%
Colorectal cancer 5 9 55.6% 54% 99%
Gastric cancer 10 15 66.7% 67% 98%
Liver cancer 6 8 75.0% 75% 100%
Lung cancer 14 15 93.3% 93% 95%
Lymphoma 23 25 92.0% 88% 99%
Melanoma 15 17 88.2% 88% 99%
Ovarian cancer 7 9 77.8% 78% 98%
Pancreatic cancer 4 13 30.8% 23% 99%
Prostate cancer 10 11 90.9% 91% 100%
Renal cancer 10 11 90.9% 91% 100%
Sarcoma 5 7 71.4% 71% 97%
Testicular cancer 13 16 81.3% 81% 100%
Thyroid cancer 6 9 66.7% 67% 100%
Total/average 146 187 78.1% 72% 99%

Numbers given for each cancer type are all samples correctly classified, all samples tested, the percentage of samples correctly classified as well as the sensitivity and specificity of the tissue of origin identification.