Table 1.

Specimens' Characteristics and Point Estimates of Sensitivity and Specificity for the Multiplatform Mutation and miRNA Test in Three Independent Case-control Specimen Sets

	Training Set	Fine-needle Aspiration	Resected Tissue
No. of cases	240	235	54
Age, y, range [average]	14–85 [49]	19–88 [52]	19–81 [50]
Female/male, %	75/25	72/28	77/23
Malignant/benign, %	55/45	40/60	59/41
Sensitivity/specificity, %	84/84	84/90	84/100