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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Sep 13.
Published in final edited form as: J Urol. 2010 Nov 12;185(1):104–110. doi: 10.1016/j.juro.2010.08.088

Table 3.

Sensitivities of biomarkers at various specificity levels

70% Specificity 80% Specificity 90% Specificity 95% Specificity




Cutoff Sensitivity (95% CI) Cutoff Sensitivity (95% CI) Cutoff Sensitivity (95% CI) Cutoff Sensitivity (95% CI)
All Subjects:
  freePSA (ng/ml) 0.49 0.72 (0.69, 0.78) 0.67 0.46 (0.43, 0.53) 0.90 0.31 (0.28, 0.38) 1.31 0.14 (0.12, 0.2)
   [−2]proPSA (pg/ml) 9.93 0.61 (0.58, 0.68) 12.58 0.47 (0.44, 0.54) 17.22 0.29 (0.26, 0.35) 20.79 0.16 (0.14, 0.22)
  phi 28.05 0.62 (0.59, 0.69) 31.58 0.53 (0.5, 0.6) 36.45 0.42 (0.39, 0.49) 42.27 0.29 (0.26, 0.36)
  %freePSA* 25.23 0.7 (0.67, 0.76) 22.75 0.62 (0.59, 0.69) 18.87 0.53 (0.5, 0.6) 15.58 0.34 (0.31, 0.41)
  %[−2]proPSA* 1.72 0.43 (0.4, 0.5) 1.53 0.33 (0.3, 0.4) 1.31 0.19 (0.17, 0.25) 1.10 0.11 (0.09, 0.16)
  DKK1 (ng/ml)* 0.84 0.31 (0.28, 0.38) 0.68 0.21 (0.19, 0.27) 0.53 0.14 (0.12, 0.2) 0.40 0.05 (0.04, 0.09)
  NEM (ng/ml) 0.28 0.37 (0.34, 0.44) 0.64 0.25 (0.22, 0.31) 1.93 0.07 (0.06, 0.12) 4.36 0.04 (0.03, 0.08)
PSA 2–10 ng/ml:
  freePSA (ng/ml)* 0.68 0.49 (0.42, 0.64) 0.52 0.24 (0.19, 0.39) 0.39 0.07 (0.04, 0.18) 0.28 0.02 (0.01, 0.11)
   [−2]proPSA (pg/ml)* 10.00 0.33 (0.27, 0.48) 8.05 0.19 (0.14, 0.33) 5.83 0.05 (0.03, 0.15) 5.46 0.04 (0.02, 0.14)
  phi 36.88 0.46 (0.39, 0.61) 39.09 0.38 (0.32, 0.53) 43.47 0.27 (0.22, 0.43) 51.06 0.22 (0.16, 0.36)
  %freePSA* 19.46 0.61 (0.54, 0.75) 17.70 0.51 (0.44, 0.66) 14.08 0.29 (0.23, 0.44) 7.37 0.04 (0.02, 0.13)
  %[−2]proPSA 1.85 0.44 (0.38, 0.6) 2.12 0.3 (0.24, 0.46) 2.45 0.19 (0.14, 0.33) 2.59 0.15 (0.11, 0.29)
*

Marker is under-expressed in cancer cases.