Table 8.

The Value of Single and Combined Detection of Serum AFP, AFP-L3, CTCs in Predicting the Poor Short-term Efficacy after Microwave Ablation in HCC Patients

Index	AUC	P	Sensitivity	Specificity	Youden index
AFP	0.532	<0.001	0.667(24)	0.594(41)	0.261
AFP-L3	0.586	<0.001	0.722(26)	0.652(45)	0.374
CTCs	0.659	<0.001	0.778(28)	0.681(47)	0.459
AFP+AFP-L3	0.746	<0.001	0.861(31)	0.696(48)	0.557
AFP+CTCs	0.781	<0.001	0.889(32)	0.710(49)	0.599
AFP-L3+CTCs	0.837	<0.001	0.917(33)	0.725(50)	0.642
AFP+AFP-L3+CTCs	0.896	<0.001	0.944(34)	0.768(53)	0.712