Table 2

Predictive performance (and 95% confidence interval) of the DLDA30 predictor in patients treated with preoperative chemotherapy


Breast tumors of any phenotype
HER-2-positive breast tumors


Performance metrics
Validation cohort
T/FACa
n = 51
Present study cohort
Trastuzumab + T/FEC
n = 45
Subset of validation cohort
T/FACa
n = 30

Area under the curve
0.877 (0.066)
0.565 (0.089)
0.81 (0.092)
Overall accuracy
0.76 (0.62–0.87)
0.51 (0.36–0.66)
0.67 (0.47–0.83)
Sensitivity
0.92 (0.64–1.00)
0.52 (0.33–0.71)
0.90 (0.56–1.00)
Specificity
0.71 (0.54–0.85)
0.50 (0.25–0.75)
0.55 (0.32–0.77)
Positive predictive value
0.52 (0.31–0.73)
0.65 (0.43–0.84)
0.50 (0.26–0.74)
Negative predictive value
0.96 (0.82–1.00)
0.36 (0.17–0.59)
0.92 (0.62–1.00)

aHess KR, Anderson K, Symmans WF, Valero V, Ibrahim N, Mejia JA, Booser D, Theriault RL, Buzdar AU, Dempsey PJ, et al. [17]. T/FAC, paclitaxel followed by 5-fluorouracil, doxorubicin, and cyclophosphamide; T/FEC, paclitaxel followed by 5-fluorouracil, epirubicin, and cyclophosphamide.

Esteva et al. Breast Cancer Research 2007 9:R87   doi:10.1186/bcr1836

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