Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, HDGF Mutation is linked to patient survival in 5 of 34 cancer types, making it a survival-associated HDGF data layer compared with 24 for mass-spec protein and 6 for mass-spec protein.
The strongest signal is observed in skin cutaneous melanoma (SKCM), where higher HDGF Mutation is associated with worse disease-free survival. In most high-consensus cancer types, elevated HDGF expression acts as an unfavorable survival marker, although some lineages such as BLCA show a favorable association.
SKCM, COAD, and LUSC are the cancer types where HDGF Mutation most reproducibly stratifies survival.