Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, CEL mass-spec protein is linked to patient survival in 3 of 34 cancer types, making it a survival-associated CEL data layer compared with 21 for mass-spec protein and 6 for mutation status.
The strongest signal is observed in uterine corpus endometrial carcinoma (UCEC), where higher CEL mass-spec protein is associated with worse overall survival. In most high-consensus cancer types, elevated CEL expression acts as an unfavorable survival marker, although some lineages such as LUAD and LSCC show a favorable association.
UCEC, LUAD, and LSCC are the cancer types where CEL mass-spec protein most reproducibly stratifies survival.