Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, CD46 mass-spec protein is linked to patient survival in 4 of 34 cancer types, making it a survival-associated CD46 data layer compared with 25 for mass-spec protein and 2 for mutation status.
The strongest signal is observed in lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD), where higher CD46 mass-spec protein is associated with worse disease-free survival. In most high-consensus cancer types, elevated CD46 expression acts as an unfavorable survival marker, although some lineages such as UCEC and PDAC show a favorable association.
LUAD, LSCC, and UCEC are the cancer types where CD46 mass-spec protein most reproducibly stratifies survival.