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. 2020 Feb 10;11(9):2540–2551. doi: 10.7150/jca.37604

Table 3.

The potential for metabolite markers in the diagnosis of BC

Ref. Sample Sensitivity Specificity AUC Potential Biomarker(s) Note
Baowen Yuan 9(2019) plasma - - 0.870 all significant metabolites BC vs HC(training)
- - 0.800 all significant metabolites BC vs HC(validation)
Paniz Jasbi 13(2019) plasma 80.00% 75.00% 0.890 all significant metabolites BC vs HC
- - 0.760 proline BC vs HC
86.00% 75.00% 0.870 all significant metabolites EBC vs HC
Dan Tudor Eniu 14(2019) serum 83.33% 76.92% 0.850 isoleucine BC vs HC
66.67% 92.31% 0.850 tryptophan BC vs HC
Xinyang Wang 15(2018) serum - - 0.924 glutamic acid BC vs HC
- - 0.901 taurine BC vs HC
- - 0.749 ethylmalonic acid BC vs HC
Shankar Suman 17(2018) plasma - - 0.818 β-glucose BC vs HC
- - 0.780 α-glucose BC vs HC
- - 0.780 lactate BC vs HC
- - 0.697 hydroxybutyrate BC vs HC
- - 0.652 N-acetyl glycoprotein BC vs HC
- - 0.627 lysine BC vs HC
Tushar H. More 18(2018) tissue - - 0.970 guanine IDC vs HC
- - 0.830 tyrosine IDC vs BE
- - 0.960 tyrosine IDC vs HC
serum - - 0.980 ascorbic acid IDC vs HC
- - 0.830 uridine diphosphate IDC vs BE
Mónica Cala 22(2018) urine 93.50% 86.20% 0.915 dimethylheptanoylcarnitine +succinic acid BC vs HC
Mariona Jové 24(2017) plasma 100.00% 100.00% 1.000 C26H43ClN4S3 BC vs HC
100.00% 100.00% 1.000 C26H51N5O4 BC vs HC
100.00% 100.00% 1.000 C9H16O3S BC vs HC
100.00% 100.00% 0.999 C23H30N2S BC vs HC
100.00% 100.00% 0.995 caproic acid BC vs HC
100.00% 90.00% 0.952 taurine BC vs HC
90.00% 90.00% 0.959 stearamide BC vs HC
100.00% 90.00% 0.935 linoleic acid BC vs HC
Naila Irum Hadi 25(2017) serum 96.00% 100.00% 0.990 all significant metabolites BC vs HC
Liping Zhong 26(2016) saliva 92.60% 91.70% 0.929 MG(0:0/14:0/0:0) BC vs HC
77.80% 100.00% 0.920 LysoPC (18:1) BC vs HC
81.50% 91.70% 0.920 LysoPC (22:6) BC vs HC
Qingjun Wang 27(2016) serum 90.30% 87.40% 0.944 all significant metabolites BC vs BE(HC)
Takahiro Takayama 28(2016) saliva 68.90% 74.40% 0.744 spermine. BC vs HC
Luisa Matos Do Canto 29(2016) ductal fluid 90.70% 88.40% 0.956 all significant metabolites BC vs HC
Sijia Huang 30(2016) plasma - - 0.986 all significant metabolites BC vs HC(training)
- - 0.995 all significant metabolites EBC vs HC(training)
- - 0.923 all significant metabolites BC vs HC(testing)
- - 0.905 all significant metabolites EBC vs HC(testing)
serum - - 0.995 all significant metabolites BC vs HC(validation)
- - 0.902 all significant metabolites EBC vs HC(validation)
Guoxiang Xie 32(2015) plasma 100.00% 100.00% 1.000 aspartic acid BC vs HC(training)
100.00% 94.30% 0.996 glycerolphosphate BC vs HC(training)
plasma 85.40% 95.10% 0.935 aspartic acid BC vs HC(validation)
95.10% 93.20% 0.971 glycerolphosphate BC vs HC(validation)
Yunping Qiu 35(2013) plasma 98.10% 96.00% - LysoPC a C16:0, PC ae C42:5 and PC aa C34:2 BC vs HC
Tone F. Bathen 37(2013) tissue 91.00% 93.00% - all significant metabolites BC patientstumor tissue vs non-involved adjacent tissue
Wuwen Lv 38(2012) serum 82.80% 85.30% 0.892 C16:0 BC vs HC
89.70% 85.00% 0.925 C16:0 BC vs BE
Yohei Miyagi 41(2011) plasma - - 0.778 all significant metabolites BC vs HC
- - 0.813 all significant metabolites Stage 0 BC vs HC
- - 0.754 all significant metabolites Stage I BC vs HC
- - 0.786 all significant metabolites Stage II BC vs HC
- - 0.755 all significant metabolites Stage III BC vs HC
Masahiro Sugimoto 42(2010) saliva - - 0.973 all significant metabolites BC vs HC
Carolyn M. Slupsky 43(2010) urine 100.00% 93.00% - all significant metabolites BC vs HC
Hojung Nam 45(2009) urine - - 0.790 all significant metabolites BC vs HC