Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, ALS2CL mass-spec protein is linked to patient survival in 4 of 34 cancer types, making it a survival-associated ALS2CL data layer compared with 22 for mass-spec protein and 7 for mutation status.
The strongest signal is observed in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC), where higher ALS2CL mass-spec protein is associated with worse disease-free survival. In most high-consensus cancer types, elevated ALS2CL expression acts as an unfavorable survival marker, although some lineages such as HNSC and CCRCC show a favorable association.
PDAC, HNSC, and CCRCC are the cancer types where ALS2CL mass-spec protein most reproducibly stratifies survival.