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 values | Non-SLN metastasis; absent | Non-SLN metastasis; present | Sensitivity | Specificity | False-negative rate (%) |
| ≤14.2% | 4 (2%) | 0 | 100.0% | 3.4% | 0.0% | ≤22.3% | 9 (4%) | 2 | 98.2% | 6.8% | 1.8% | ≤28.6% | 17 (7%) | 6 | 94.6% | 14.7% | 5.4% | ≤31.2% | 30 (13%) | 11 | 90.2% | 22.4% | 9.8% | ≤35.7% | 39 (17%) | 17 | 84.8% | 33.6% | 15.2% | n = 228; among them, 112 patients were positive for non-SLNs with metastases |
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