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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Surgery. 2018 Oct 22;165(1):17–24. doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2018.04.062

Table 3.

Predictive Values of ThyroSeq v2 for malignancy, by institution and combined, with NIFTP alternatively considered benign and malignant. MSKCC, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center; MCC, Moffitt Cancer Center; CSMC, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center; MSHS, Mount Sinai Health System; PPV, positive predictive value; NPV, negative predictive value.

Institution ThyroSeq
Status
Malignant NIFTP Benign Diagnostic
Performance
(NIFTP Benign)
Diagnostic
Performance
(NIFTP Malignant)
MSKCC ThyroSeq-
positive
(n=74)
32 (43%) 30 (41%) 12 (16%) PPV-43%
NPV-88%
Sensitivity-91%
Specificity-33%
PPV-84%
NPV-79%
Sensitivity-93%
Specificity-61%
ThyroSeq-
negative
(n=24)
3 (13%) 2 (8%) 19 (79%)
MCC ThyroSeq-
positive
(n=33)
11 (33%) 5 (15%) 17 (52%) PPV-33%
NPV-94%
Sensitivity-73%
Specificity-75%
PPV-48%
NPV-87%
Sensitivity-64%
Specificity-78%
ThyroSeq-
negative
(n=69)
4 (6%) 5 (7%) 60 (87%)
CSMC ThyroSeq-
positive
(n=11)
3 (27%) 1 (9%) 7 (64%) PPV- 27%
NPV-100%
Sensitivity-100%
Specificity-20%
PPV-36%
NPV-100%
Sensitivity-100%
Specificity-22%
ThyroSeq-
negative
(n=2)
0 (0%) 0 (0%) 2 (100%)
MSHS ThyroSeq-
positive
(n=37)
8 (22%) 2 (5%) 27 (73%) PPV-22%
NPV-96%
Sensitivity-89%
Specificity-43%
PPV-27%
NPV-91%
Sensitivity-83%
Specificity-44%
ThyroSeq-
negative
(n=23)
1 (4%) 1 (4%) 21 (91%)
Overall ThyroSeq-
positive
(n=155)
54 (35%) 38 (25%) 63 (41%) PPV-35%
NPV-93%
Sensitivity-87%
Specificity-52%
PPV-59%
NPV-86%
Sensitivity-85%
Specificity-62%
ThyroSeq-
negative
(n=118)
8 (7%) 8 (7%) 102 (86%)