Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, CCL20 RNA is linked to patient survival in 26 of 34 cancer types, making it the most broadly survival-associated CCL20 data layer compared with 2 for mutation status and 2 for mass-spec protein.
The strongest signal is observed in kidney renal papillary cell carcinoma (KIRP), where higher CCL20 RNA is associated with worse disease-free survival. In most high-consensus cancer types, elevated CCL20 expression acts as an unfavorable survival marker, although some lineages such as UCS and LUSC show a favorable association.
KIRP, UVM, and LUAD are the cancer types where CCL20 RNA most reproducibly stratifies survival.
RNA 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.