Table 6 Sensitivity and specificity of immunohistochemistry for a combination of three markers in determining a basal phenotype in 61 infiltrative ductal carcinomas subtyped on expression profiling

From: Triple-negative breast cancer: clinicopathological characteristics and relationship with basal-like breast cancer

Three marker panel

Sensitivity (%)

Specificity (%)

AUC a

P-value

CK14, CK17, EGFR

44

100

0.838

0.000

CK14, CK17, 34βE12

80

94

0.797

0.000

CK14, EGFR, 34βE12

78

100

0.860

0.000

CK17, EGFR, 34βE12

75

94

0.860

0.000

  1. aAUC, area under the ROC curve.