Table 7 Sensitivity and specificity of immunohistochemistry for a combination of four 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

Four markers panel

Sensitivity (%)

Specificity (%)

AUC a

P- value

CK14, CK17, EGFR, p63

86%

73%

0.863

0.000

CK14, CK17, EGFR, CD117

86%

73%

0.863

0.000

CK17, EGFR, p63, CD117

86%

76%

0.859

0.000

CK17, EGFR, p63, SMA

79%

79%

0.813

0.000

  1. aAUC, area under the ROC curve.