Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, CTC1 mass-spec protein is linked to patient survival in 3 of 34 cancer types, making it a survival-associated CTC1 data layer compared with 25 for mass-spec protein and 6 for mutation status.
The strongest signal is observed in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC), where higher CTC1 mass-spec protein is associated with worse overall survival. In most high-consensus cancer types, elevated CTC1 expression acts as an unfavorable survival marker, although some lineages such as LSCC show a favorable association.
PDAC, LSCC, and CCRCC are the cancer types where CTC1 mass-spec protein most reproducibly stratifies survival.