Research Article

A Predictive Model for Nonsentinel Node Status after Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy in Sentinel Lymph Node-Positive Chinese Women with Early Breast Cancer

Table 5

Diagnostic evaluation table about risk interval from the predictive equation in the model group.

Cutoff valuesNon-SLN metastasis; absentNon-SLN metastasis; presentSensitivitySpecificityFalse-negative rate (%)

≤14.2%4 (2%)0100.0%3.4%0.0%
≤22.3%9 (4%)298.2%6.8%1.8%
≤28.6%17 (7%)694.6%14.7%5.4%
≤31.2%30 (13%)1190.2%22.4%9.8%
≤35.7%39 (17%)1784.8%33.6%15.2%
n = 228; among them, 112 patients were positive for non-SLNs with metastases