Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, IDS mass-spec protein is linked to patient survival in 5 of 34 cancer types, making it a survival-associated IDS data layer compared with 28 for mass-spec protein and 2 for mutation status.
The strongest signal is observed in lung squamous cell carcinoma (LSCC), where higher IDS mass-spec protein is associated with worse overall survival. In most high-consensus cancer types, elevated IDS expression acts as an unfavorable survival marker, although some lineages such as GBM and CCRCC show a favorable association.
LSCC, GBM, and LUAD are the cancer types where IDS mass-spec protein most reproducibly stratifies survival.