Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, ACTB mass-spec protein is linked to patient survival in 4 of 34 cancer types, making it a survival-associated ACTB data layer compared with 29 for mass-spec protein and 5 for mutation status.
The strongest signal is observed in lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD), where higher ACTB mass-spec protein is associated with worse disease-free survival. In most high-consensus cancer types, elevated ACTB expression acts as an unfavorable survival marker, although some lineages such as PDAC show a favorable association.
LUAD, CCRCC, and PDAC are the cancer types where ACTB mass-spec protein most reproducibly stratifies survival.