ICOS

Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, ICOS mass-spec protein is linked to patient survival in 3 of 34 cancer types, making it a survival-associated ICOS data layer compared with 24 for mass-spec protein and 3 for mutation status.

The strongest signal is observed in lung squamous cell carcinoma (LSCC), where higher ICOS mass-spec protein is associated with worse disease-free survival. In most high-consensus cancer types, elevated ICOS expression acts as an unfavorable survival marker, although some lineages such as LUAD and HNSC show a favorable association.

LSCC, LUAD, and HNSC are the cancer types where ICOS mass-spec protein most reproducibly stratifies survival.

mass-spec protein 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.

Lineage	Measure	Split	Stage	AUC1 high	AUC2 low	p	Sampling consensus
LSCC	DFS	Quartile	II,III,IV	0.444	1.000	.027	5	view →
LUAD	DFS	Median	All	0.888	0.171	.036	3	view →
HNSC	OS	Median	All	1.000	0.722	.025	1	view →

Pink = unfavorable, green = favorable. Showing the 3 strongest of 3 lineages.

ICOS–LSCC (DFS)

Open the LSCC breakdown →