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. 2021 Jan 15;23(4):415–420. doi: 10.4103/aja.aja_72_20

Supplementary Table 3.

Sensitivity, specificity, and area under the receiver operating characteristic curve of peripheral zone prostate-specific antigen density, prostate-specific antigen, prostate-specific antigen density, and transition zone prostate-specific antigen density for predicting prostate cancer

PSA (ng ml−1) Variable Best cutoff Sensitivity (%) Specificity (%) AUC-ROC
4.0–10.0 PZ-PSAD 0.105 70.7 72.1 0.770
PSA 6.455 68.0 53.1 0.592
PSAD 0.142 69.3 69.3 0.730
TZ-PSAD 0.289 74.7 73.2 0.766
10.1–20.0 PZ-PSAD 0.436 68.8 86.5 0.823
PSA 14.05 58.5 67.7 0.621
PSAD 0.298 67.5 84.4 0.799
TZ-PSAD 0.844 84.4 63.5 0.769
4.0–20.0 PZ-PSAD 0.258 59.2 83.3 0.785
PSA 7.895 67.1 52.0 0.630
PSAD 0.208 61.8 82.2 0.762
TZ-PSAD 0.302 81.6 66.2 0.775
>20.0 PZ-PSAD 1.803 84.5 77.8 0.870
PSA 39.21 67.9 77.8 0.750
PSAD 0.801 76.2 77.8 0.797
TZ-PSAD 0.685 90.5 61.1 0.728

PSA: prostate-specific antigen; PSAD: prostate-specific antigen density; TZ-PSAD: transition zone prostate-specific antigen density; PZ-PSAD: peripheral zone prostate-specific antigen density; ROC: receiver operating characteristic; AUC-ROC: area under the ROC curve-ROC