Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, ILK mass-spec protein is linked to patient survival in 5 of 34 cancer types, making it a survival-associated ILK data layer compared with 26 for mass-spec protein and 4 for mutation status.
The strongest signal is observed in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC), where higher ILK mass-spec protein is associated with better disease-free survival. In most high-consensus cancer types, elevated ILK expression acts as an unfavorable survival marker, although some lineages such as PDAC and CCRCC show a favorable association.
PDAC, GBM, and LSCC are the cancer types where ILK mass-spec protein most reproducibly stratifies survival.