Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, DCSTAMP RNA is linked to patient survival in 23 of 34 cancer types, making it the most broadly survival-associated DCSTAMP data layer compared with 6 for mutation status.
The strongest signal is observed in uveal melanoma (UVM), where higher DCSTAMP RNA is associated with worse overall survival. In most high-consensus cancer types, elevated DCSTAMP expression acts as an unfavorable survival marker, although some lineages such as CESC and SKCM show a favorable association.
UVM, ACC, and CESC are the cancer types where DCSTAMP 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.