Research Article

The Prognostic Value of Pyrosequencing-Detected MGMT Promoter Hypermethylation in Newly Diagnosed Patients with Glioblastoma

Table 2

Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) analyses showing the best cut-off values of MGMT predicting overall survival (left) and progression-free survival (right) in the study sample ().

Progression-free survivalOverall survival

AUC (95% CIs)0.71 (0.57–0.83)0.65 (0.50–0.78)
Criterion (cut-off)≥19%≥13%
Sensitivity73%58%
Specificity77%70%
value0.00540.057

AUC: area under the curve; MGMT: O6-methylguanine-DNA-methyltransferase.