Research Article

Limited Utility of Routine Surveillance MRI Following Chemoradiation for Advanced-Stage Oropharynx Carcinoma

Table 5

MRI surveillance program sensitivity and specificity.

Recurrent disease detected by imaging (patients)2
Recurrent disease not detected by imaging (patients)2
Nonrecurrent disease with false-positive study (patients)6
Nonrecurrent disease with negative studies (patients)30

Sensitivity (percent)50
Specificity (percent)83
Positive predictive value (percent)25
Negative predictive value (percent)94