Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, CASP4 mass-spec protein is linked to patient survival in 8 of 34 cancer types, making it a survival-associated CASP4 data layer compared with 21 for mass-spec protein and 4 for mutation status.
The strongest signal is observed in uterine corpus endometrial carcinoma (UCEC), where higher CASP4 mass-spec protein is associated with better overall survival. In most high-consensus cancer types, elevated CASP4 expression acts as an unfavorable survival marker, although some lineages such as UCEC and HNSC show a favorable association.
UCEC, COAD, and CCRCC are the cancer types where CASP4 mass-spec protein most reproducibly stratifies survival.
mass-spec protein survival associations by lineage
Ranked by sampling consensus. AUC1 and AUC2 indicate survival in the high- and low-expression groups, respectively; the lower AUC marks the poorer-surviving group. p-values are from the log-rank test.