Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, ADO mass-spec protein is linked to patient survival in 4 of 34 cancer types, making it a survival-associated ADO data layer compared with 26 for mass-spec protein and 5 for mutation status.
The strongest signal is observed in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSC), where higher ADO mass-spec protein is associated with worse disease-free survival. In most high-consensus cancer types, elevated ADO expression acts as an unfavorable survival marker, although some lineages such as CCRCC and LSCC show a favorable association.
HNSC, CCRCC, and GBM are the cancer types where ADO mass-spec protein most reproducibly stratifies survival.