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Table 5 Characteristics of included studies for meta-analysis

From: A comparative study on ctDNA and tumor DNA mutations in lung cancer and benign cases with a high number of CTCs and CTECs

Study

Stage

TP

FP

FN

TN

Sensitivity

(95% CI)

Specificity (95% CI)

ctDNA Method

tDNA

Method

Targeted Gene

Bin Zhang et al

early-stage

15

5

25

3

0.38 (0.23–0.54)

0.38 (0.09–0.76)

NGS

NGS

Panel Targeted 546 GENES*

Charu Aggarwal et al

IV

54

11

21

42

0.72 (0.60–0.82)

0.79 (0.66–0.89)

NGS

NGS

Panel Targeted 73 GENES;153GENES*

Chenglong Zhao et al

Advanced

381

21

111

6

0.77 (0.73–0.81)

0.22 (0.09–0.42)

NGS

NGS

Panel Targeted 168 GENES

García-Pardo et al

Advanced

35

5

1

28

0.97 (0.85–1.00)

0.85 (0.68–0.95)

NGS

NGS

EGFR; ALK;ROS1;MET;ERBB2;BRAF;KRAS

Hao Bai et al

I-IV

20

11

6

42

0.77 (0.56–0.91)

0.79 (0.66–0.89)

NGS

AMRS-PCR

EGFR

Jian-xin Yin et al

IA-IV

7

5

0

64

1.00 (0.59–1.00)

0.93 (0.84–0.98)

NGS

NGS

EGFR; KRAS

Jun Cai et al

Advanced

30

3

16

0

0.65 (0.50–0.79)

0.00 (0.00–0.71)

NGS

NGS

Panel Targeted 95 GENES*

Justin Jee et al

Advanced

216

3

163

538

0.57 (0.52–0.62)

0.99 (0.98–1.00)

NGS

NGS

Panel Targeted 24GENES*

Lawrence Hsu Lin et al

II- IV

27

3

23

18

0.54 (0.39–0.68)

0.86 (0.64–0.97)

NGS

NGS

Panel Targeted 74 GENES*

Luis E. Raez et al

IV

14

18

7

114

0.67 (0.43–0.85)

0.86 (0.79–0.92)

NGS

NGS

Panel Targeted 86 GENES*

Maria Gabriela O. et al

II IV

51

3

12

61

0.81 (0.69–0.90)

0.95 (0.87–0.99)

NGS

NGS

Panel Targeted 24 GENES*

Martin Metzenmacher et al

IV

10

3

3

0

0.77 (0.46–0.95)

0.00 (0.00–0.71)

NGS

NGS

Panel Targeted 73 GENES*

Moom R. et al

I-IV

89

66

62

3

0.59 (0.51–0.67)

0.04 (0.00–0.12)

NGS

NGS

ALK,EGFR,ROS1,BRAF,RET,MET, ERBB2, KRAS

Paul van et al

Advanced

33

4

17

12

0.66 (0.51–0.79)

0.75 (0.48–0.93)

NGS

NGS

EGFR, KRAS, BRAF, ERBB2, and PIK3CA

Peng-Peng Kuang et al

IB-III

19

0

19

0

0.50 (0.33–0.67)

Not estimable

NGS

NGS

Panel Targeted 425 GENES*

Ramon Palmero et al

Advanced

29

17

19

3

0.60 (0.45–0.74)

0.15 (0.03–0.38)

NGS

NGS

ALK,EGFR,ROS1,BRAF,RET, MET, ERBB2, KRAS

Sehhoon Park et al

Advanced

108

11

53

87

0.67 (0.59–0.74)

0.89 (0.81–0.94)

NGS

NGS

Panel Targeted 74 GENES*

Sheehyun Kim et al

Advanced

28

18

19

0

0.60 (0.44–0.74)

0.00 (0.00–0.19)

NGS

NGS

Panel Targeted 171 and 25 fusion genes*

Vassiliki A. et al

Advanced

566

53

287

754

0.66 (0.63–0.70)

0.93 (0.91–0.95)

NGS

PCR

EGFR

Yukti Choudhury et al

I-IV

9

2

3

10

0.75 (0.43–0.95)

0.83 (0.52–0.98)

NGS

NGS

Panel Targeted 49 GENES*

Zeyun Lin et al

I-IV

81

6

34

69

0.70 (0.61–0.79)

0.92 (0.83–0.97)

NGS

NGS

Panel Targeted 168 GENES*

  1. EGFR epidermal growth factor receptor; ALK anaplastic lymphoma kinase; ROS1 ROS proto-oncogene 1, receptor tyrosine kinase; HER2/ERBB2 human epidermal growth factor receptor 2; BRAF serine/threonine-protein kinase B-Raf; MET MET proto-oncogene, receptor tyrosine kinase; RET RET proto-oncogene; KRAS proto-oncogenes, K-rasFN, false negative; FP false positive; TP true positive; TN true negative;  NGS next generation sequencing
  2. *The genes panels some studies applied include 8 core driver genes in lung cancer: EGFR、ALK、ROS1、BRAF、RET、MET、HER2、KRAS