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. 2018 Jun 8;6(1):114–121. doi: 10.1016/j.ajur.2018.06.001

Table 2.

Comparison of FISH test and cytology in the diagnosis of all bladder transitional cell cancer (n = 3 959).

FISH test Cytology p value
True positive, n 3 011 1 217
False positive, n 54 20
True negative, n 265 299
False negative, n 629 2423
Sensitivity (%) 82.7 33.4 <0.001
Specificity (%) 83.1 93.7 <0.001
AUC 0.829 0.636 <0.001
Positive predictive value (%) 98.2 98.4
Negative predictive value (%) 29.6 11.0

AUC, area under curve; FISH, fluorescence in situ hybridization.