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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Mar 27.
Published in final edited form as: J Thorac Oncol. 2016 Sep 8;12(3):578–584. doi: 10.1016/j.jtho.2016.08.143

Table 4.

Example Using a Specificity of 97%

Model Model Only Model + AAb Total



MAYO Negative Positive Either Negative Both Positive
No LC 163 5 No LC 163 5 168
LC 35 5 LC 27 13 40
Total 198 10 Total 190 18 208

Risk 60% 20%

Spec, Sens 97%, 13% 97%, 33%

PPV 50% 72%

RR 2.8 (1.4–5.6) 5.1 (3.2–8.0)

DLRp 4.2 (1.3–13.8) 10.9 (4.1–28.9)

Note: The effect of adding EarlyCDT-Lung at a reduced risk level (60%–20%) is to reclassify eight cancers from false-negative to true positive. This gave high performance statistics: PPV = 72%, RR = 5.1, and DLRp = 10.9.

AAb, autoantibody; LC, lung cancer; Risk, risk threshold; Spec, specificity; Sens, sensitivity; PPV, positive predictive value; RR, relative risk with 95% confidence interval; DLRp, positive diagnostic likelihood ratio with 95% confidence interval.