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Table 3 Accuracy, sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, and negative predictive value according to Polη IHC counting percent in predicting chemotherapy response to FOLFOX or XELOX regimen

From: DNA polymeraseη protein expression predicts treatment response and survival of metastatic gastric adenocarcinoma patients treated with oxaliplatin-based chemotherapy

Tumor cell positive percent, cut off

Specificity

Sensitivity

PPV

NPV

Accuracy

1%

0.419

0.889

0.308

0.929

0.525

2%

0.500

0.889

0.340

0.940

0.588

3%

0.645

0.889

0.421

0.952

0.700

4%

0.823

0.889

0.593

0.962

0.838

5%

0.887

0.889

0.696

0.965

0.888

6%

0.887

0.778

0.667

0.932

0.863

7%

0.978

0.667

0.705

0.904

0.863

8%

0

0.389

1.000

0.849

0.863

9%

0

0.111

1.000

0.795

0.800

  1. PPV, positive predictive value; NPV, negative predictive value.