Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, FAM174A mass-spec protein is linked to patient survival in 4 of 34 cancer types, making it a survival-associated FAM174A data layer compared with 27 for mass-spec protein and 4 for mutation status.
The strongest signal is observed in lung squamous cell carcinoma (LSCC), where higher FAM174A mass-spec protein is associated with worse disease-free survival. In most high-consensus cancer types, elevated FAM174A expression acts as an unfavorable survival marker, although some lineages such as GBM show a favorable association.
LSCC, LUAD, and CCRCC are the cancer types where FAM174A mass-spec protein most reproducibly stratifies survival.