Research Article

Urinary Biomarker Panel to Improve Accuracy in Predicting Prostate Biopsy Result in Chinese Men with PSA 4–10 ng/mL

Table 3

Sensitivity and specificity of three biomarkers with efficacy in predicting prostate cancer in patients with PSA 4–10 ng/mL.

CriterionSensitivity95% CISpecificity95% CI+LR−LR+PV−PV

PCA323.597.084.2–99.941.631.2–52.51.70.138.197.4
30.490.975.7–98.143.833.3–54.71.60.237.592.9
35.481.864.5–93.046.135.4–57.01.50.436.087.2
214.327.313.3–45.589.981.7–95.32.70.850.076.9

PSGR24.290.975.7–98.120.212.4–30.11.10.529.785.7
93.081.864.5–93.049.438.7–60.21.60.437.588.0
623.312.13.4–28.296.690.5–99.33.60.957.174.8

MALAT-132.890.975.7–98.125.817.1–36.21.20.431.388.5
109.672.754.5–86.760.749.7–70.91.90.540.785.7
156.554.636.4–71.978.768.7–86.62.60.648.682.4

PSA9.690.975.7–98.111.25.5–19.71.020.8127.576.9
7.9572.754.5–86.739.329.1–50.31.200.6930.879.5
5.118.187.0–35.591.083.1–96.02.020.9042.975.0

% fPSA21.990.975.7–98.128.119.1–38.61.260.3231.989.3
23.2100.089.4-100.024.716.2–35.01.330.0033.0100.0
9.121.29.0–38.989.981.7–95.32.100.8843.775.5

Indicating the cutoff value of the Youden index. PA: predictive accuracy; +LR: positive likelihood ratio; −LR: negative likelihood ratio; +PV: positive predicted value; −PV: negative predicted value.