Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, IVL mass-spec protein is linked to patient survival in 4 of 34 cancer types, making it a survival-associated IVL data layer compared with 20 for mass-spec protein and 6 for mutation status.
The strongest signal is observed in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC), where higher IVL mass-spec protein is associated with worse overall survival. In most high-consensus cancer types, elevated IVL expression acts as an unfavorable survival marker, although some lineages such as HNSC and LSCC show a favorable association.
PDAC, HNSC, and LSCC are the cancer types where IVL mass-spec protein most reproducibly stratifies survival.