Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, C3orf38 mass-spec protein is linked to patient survival in 6 of 34 cancer types, making it a survival-associated C3orf38 data layer compared with 30 for mass-spec protein and 4 for mutation status.
The strongest signal is observed in uterine corpus endometrial carcinoma (UCEC), where higher C3orf38 mass-spec protein is associated with worse overall survival. In most high-consensus cancer types, elevated C3orf38 expression acts as an unfavorable survival marker, although some lineages such as HNSC and PDAC show a favorable association.
UCEC, LSCC, and HNSC are the cancer types where C3orf38 mass-spec protein most reproducibly stratifies survival.