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. 2021 Feb 18;13(4):858. doi: 10.3390/cancers13040858

Table 4.

Performance characteristics of incidence USS screening for detection of ovarian and tubal cancers (WHO 2014 classification) within one year of screen.

Characteristics No/% (95% CI)
Number of women screen years 280,534
Number of surgeries 960
Ovarian and Tubal Malignancies
Screen positives 113
Screen negatives 52
Sensitivity 68.5% (60.8, 75.5)
Specificity 99.7%(99.7, 99.7)
Positive predictive value 11.8%(9.8, 14.0)
No. of operations per screen positive 8.5
Invasive Epithelial Ovarian and Tubal Malignancies *
Screen positives 80
Screen negatives 50
Sensitivity 61.5% (52.6, 69.9)
Specificity 99.7% (99.7, 99.7)
Positive predictive value 8.3% (6.7, 10.3)
No. of operations per screen positive 12.0

Data are numbers or % (95% CI) * excludes non epithelial and borderline epithelial ovarian neoplasms).