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Table 6 Basic modelling information of papers included in systematic review

From: Prediction of resistance to chemotherapy in ovarian cancer: a systematic review

Study

Prediction

Prediction method

Predictive ability

Jeong et al. [22]

Overall Survival

Student’s T test, Hierarchical clustering, Compound covariate predictor algorithm, Cox proportional hazards regression, Kaplan-Meier curves, Log-rank test, ROC analysis

‘Taxane-based treatment significantly affected OS for patients in the YA subgroup (3 year rate: 74.4% with taxane vs. 37.9% without taxane, p=0.005 by log-rank test)’, ‘estimated hazard ratio for death after taxane-based treatment in the YA subgroup was 0.5 (95% CI=0.31−−0.82,p=0.005)’

Lisowska et al. [23]

Chemoresponse, Disease-Free Survival, Overall Survival

Support vector machines, Kaplan-Meier curves, Log-rank test

No genes found to be significant in the training set were significant in the test set, for chemoresponse, DFS or OS

Roque et al. [24]

Overall Survival

Kaplan-Meier curves, Log-rank test, Student’s T test

‘OS was predicted by increased class III β-tubulin staining by both tumor (HR3.66, 96%CI=1.11–12.1, p=0.03) and stroma (HR4.53, 95%CI=1.28–16.1, p=0.02)’

Li et al. [3]

Chemoresponse (chemoresistant vs. chemosensitive)

Correlation of p-CFL1 staining and chemoresponse

‘immunostaining of p-CFL1 was positive in 77.3% of chemosensitive and in 95.9% of the chemoresistant’ (p=0.014, U=157.5)

Schwede et al. [25]

Stem cell-like subtype, Disease-Free Survival, Overall Survival

ISIS unsupervised bipartitioning, Diagonal linear discriminant analysis, Gaussian mixture modelling, Kaplan-Meier curves, Log-rank test

OS (p values): Dressman =0.0354, Crijns =0.021, Tothill =4.4E−7

Verhaak et al. [26]

Poor Prognosis vs. Good Prognosis

Significance analysis of microarrays, Single sample gene set enrichment analysis, Kaplan-Meier curves, Log-rank test

Good or Poor prognosis, likelihood ratio =44.63

Obermayr et al. [27]

Disease-Free Survival, Overall Survival

Kaplan-Meier curves, Cox proportional hazards regression, χ2 test

‘The presence of CTCs six months after completion of the adjuvant chemotherapy indicated relapse within the following six months with 41% sensitivity, and relapse within the entire observation period with 22% sensitivity (85% specificity)’

Han et al. [28]

Complete Response or Progressive Disease

Supervised principal component method

349 gene signature: ROC AUC =0.702, p=0.022. 18 gene: ROC AUC =0.614, p=0.197.

Hsu et al. [29]

Progression-Dree Survival

Semi-supervised hierarchical clustering

Good Response vs. Poor Response, p=0.021

Lui et al. [30]

Chemosensitivity, Overall Survival, Progression-Dree Survival

Predictive score using weighted voting algorithm, Kaplan-Meier curves, Log-rank Test, Cox proportional hazards regression

Response of 26 of 35 patients in an independent data set was correctly predicted, patients in the low-scoring group exhibited poorer PFS (HR=0.43, p=0.04), ROC AUC = 0.90(0.86–0.95)

Kang et al. [31]

Overall Survival, Progression-Free Survival, Recurrence-Free Survival

Kaplan-Meier curves, Log-rank test, Cox proportional hazards regression, Pearson correlation coefficient

Berchuck dataset: HR=0.33, 95%CI=0.13–0.86, p=0.013; Tothill dataset: HR=0.61, 95%CI=0.36–0.99, p=0.044

Gillet et al. [32]

Overall Survival, Progression-Free Survival

Supervised principle components method, Cox proportional hazards regression, Kaplan-Meier curves, Log-rank test

‘An 11-gene signature whose measured expression significantly improves the power of the covariates to predict poor survival’(p<0.003)

Ferriss et al. [33]

Overall Survival

COXEN coefficient, Mann-Whitney U test, ROC analysis, Unsupervised Hierarchical Clustering

Carboplatin: sensitivity = 0.906, specificity = 0.174, PPV = 60%, NPV = 57% (UVA-55 validation set)

Brun et al. [34]

2-year Disease-Free Survival

Student’s T test, Principal component analysis, Concordance index, Kaplen-Meier curves, Log-rank test

No genes were found to have prognostic value

Skirnisdottir and Seidal [35]

Recurrence, Disease-Free Survival

χ2 test, Kaplan-Meier curves, Log-rank test, Logistic regression, Cox proportional hazards regression

p53-status (OR=4.123, p=0.009; HR=2.447, p=0.019) was a significant and independent factor for tumor recurrence and DFS.

Brenne et al. [36]

OC or MM, Progression-Free Survival, Overall Survival

Mann-Whitney U test, Kaplan-Meier curves, Log-rank test, Cox proportional hazards regression

Cox Multivariate Analysis: EHF mRNA expression in pre-chemotherapy effusions was an independent predictor of PFS (p=0.033, relative risk=4.528)

Sabatier et al. [37]

Progression-Free Survival, Overall Survival

Cox proportional hazards regression, Pearson’s coefficient correlation score

Favourable vs. Unfavourable: ‘sensitivity = 61.6%, specificity = 62.4%, OR=2.7, 95%CI=1.7–4.2; p=6.1×10−06, Fisher’s exact test’

Gillet et al. [38]

Overall Survival, Progression-Free Survival, Treatment Response

Linear regression, Hierarchical clustering, Kaplan-Meier curves, Log-rank test

‘6 gene signature alone can effectively predict the progression-free survival of women with ovarian serous carcinoma (log-rank p=0.002)’

Chao et al. [39]

Chemoresistance

Interaction and expression networks for pathway identification, pathway intersections, betweenness and degree centrality, Student’s T test

No statistical measure available. Many genes identified have previously been found experimentally

Schlumbrecht et al. [40]

Overall Survival, Recurrence-Free Survival

Linear regression, Logistic regression, Cox proportional hazards regression, Kaplan-Meier curves, Unsupervised cluster analysis, Log-rank test, Mann-Whitney U test, χ2 test

‘Greater EIG121 expression was associated with shorter time to recurrence (HR=1.13 (CI=1.02–1.26), p=0.021)’, ‘Increased expression of EIG121 demonstrated a statistically significant association with worse OS (HR=1.21 (CI1.09–1.35), p<0.001)’

Glaysher et al. [41]

Chemosensitivity

AIC gene selection, Multiple linear regression

Cisplatin: \(R^{2}_{\textit {adj}} = 0.836\), p<0.001

Yan et al. [42]

Chemosensitivity

ANOVA, Student’s T test, Mann-Whitney U test

‘Immunostaining scores [Annexin A3] are significantly higher in platinum-resistant tumors (p=0.035)’

Yoshihara et al. [43]

Progression-Free Survival

Cox proportional hazards regression, Ridge regression, Prognostic index, ROC analysis, Kaplan-Meier curves, Log-rank test

‘Prognostic index was an independent prognostic factor for PFS time (HR=1.64, p=0.0001)’, sensitivity = 64.4%, specificity = 69.2%

Williams et al. [44]

Overall Survival

COXEN score, Kaplan-Meier curves, Student’s T test, ROC analysis, Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient, Logistic regression, Log-rank test

Carboplatin and Taxol: sensitivity = 77%, specificity = 56%, PPV=71%, NPV=78%

Denkert et al. [45]

Overall Survival

Semi-supervised analysis via Cox scoring, Principal components analysis, Kaplan-Meier curves, Log-rank test, Cox proportional hazards regression

Duke et al.: ‘clinical outcome is significantly different depending on the OPI (p=0.021), with an HR of 1.7 (CI 1.1–2.6)’

Matsumura et al. [46]

Taxane sensitivity, Overall Survival

Hierarchical clustering, Kaplan-Meier curves, Log-rank test

‘Patients in the YY1-High cluster who were treated with paclitaxel showed improved survival compared with the other groups (p=0.010)’

Crijns et al. [47]

Overall Survival

Supervised principal components method, Cox proportional hazards regression, Kaplan-Meier curves, Log-rank test, χ2 test

OSP: (High-risk vs. low-risk) HR=1.940, CI=1.190–3.163, p=0.008

Mendiola et al. [48]

Progression-Free Survival, Overall Survival

Kaplan-Meier curves, Log-rank test, AIC-based model selection, ROC curves, Cox proportional hazards regression

OS: sensitivity = 87.2%, specificity = 86.4%

Gevaert et al. [49]

Platin Resistance/Sensitivity, Stage

Principal component analysis, Least squares support vector machines

Platin-Resistance/Sensitivity: sensitivity = 67%, specificity = 40%, accuracy = 51.11%

Bachvarov et al. [50]

Chemoresistance

Hierarchical Clustering, Support vector machines

No prediction metric applied

Netinatsunthorn et al. [51]

Overall Survival, Recurrence-Free Survival

Kaplan-Meier curves, Cox proportional hazards regression

OS: HR=1.98, 95%CI=1.28–3.79, p=0.0138 ; RFS: HR=3.36, 95%CI=1.60–7.03, p=0.0017

De Smet et al. [52]

Stage I vs. Advanced stage, Platin-sensistive vs. Platin-resistant

Principal component analysis, Least squares support vector machines

Estimated Classification Accuracy: Stage I vs Advanced Stage =100%, Platin-sensitive vs. Platin-resistant =76.9%

Helleman et al. [53]

Chemoresponse (responder vs. non-responder)

Class prediction, Hierarchical clustering, Principal component analysis

Test set: PPV=24%, NPV=97%, sensitivity =89%, specificity =59%

Spentzos et al. [54]

Chemoresponse (pathological-CR or PD), Disease-Free survival, Overall Survival

Class prediction analysis, Compound covariate algorithm, Average linkage hierarchical clustering, Kaplan-Meier curves, Log-rank test, Cox proportional hazards regression

Cox PH (resistant vs. sensitive): Recurrence HR=2.7 (95%CI=1.2–6.1), Death HR=3.9 (95%CI=3.1–11.4)

Jazaeri et al. [55]

Clinical response

Class prediction

9 most significantly differentially expressed genes, primary chemoresistant vs. primary chemosensitive: accuracy =77.8%

Raspollini et al. [56]

Overall Survival (high vs. low)

Univariate logistic regression, χ2 test

COX-2: OR=0.23, 95%CI=0.06–0.77, p=0.017; MDR1: OR=0.01, 95%CI=0.002–0.09, p=<0.0005

Hartmann et al. [57]

Time To Relapse (early vs.late)

Support vector machine, Kaplan-Meier curves, Log-rank test, average linkage clustering

Accuracy =86%, PPV=95%, NPV=67%

Spentzos et al. [58]

Disease-Free Survival, Overall Survival

Supervised pattern recognition/class prediction, Kaplan-Meier curves, Log-rank test, Cox proportional hazards regression

Unfavourable vs. Favourable OS : (CPH) HR=4.6, 95%CI=2.0–10.7, p=0.0001

Selvanayagam et al. [59]

Chemoresistance (chemoresistant vs. chemosensitive)

Supervised voice-pattern recognition algorithm (clustering)

PPV=1, NPV=1

Iba et al. [60]

Chemoresponse, Overall Survival

Kaplan-Meier curves, Log-rank test, Cox propotionate hazards regression, ROC analysis, χ2 test, Student’s T test, Mann-Whitney U test

‘Patients with c-myc expression of over 200 showed a significantly better 5-year survival rate (69.8% vs. 43.5%)’, p<0.05

Kamazawa et al. [61]

Chemoresponse (CR or PR vs. NC or PD)

Defined threshold expressionto divide responders and non-responders

MDR-1 (all samples): specificity =95%, sensitivity = 100%, predictive value =96%

Vogt et al. [62]

Chemoresistance

Correlation of AUC from in-vitro ATP-CVA and gene expression

All p values for correlation of drugs and genes were >0.05

  1. If more than one value is given, the study used multiple different prediction methods or predicted more than one endpoint.