. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jun 28.

Published in final edited form as: Ann Surg Oncol. 2015 Apr 11;22(12):3996–4001. doi: 10.1245/s10434-015-4486-3

TABLE 1.

Comparison of MSK and MSBI demographic and performance characteristics

Characteristic	MSK	MSBI
No. of patients	94	62
Female (%)	66	72
Mean age (years)	49	56
No. of nodules	94	71
Mean nodule size (cm)	2.1	2.3
% GEC-benign nodules that were malignant	0	0
% GEC-suspicious nodules that underwent surgery	60.0	61.7

MSK Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, MSBI Mount Sinai Beth Israel, GEC gene expression classifier