Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, NOVA2 mass-spec protein is linked to patient survival in 5 of 34 cancer types, making it a survival-associated NOVA2 data layer compared with 27 for mass-spec protein and 3 for mutation status.
The strongest signal is observed in lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD), where higher NOVA2 mass-spec protein is associated with worse disease-free survival. In most high-consensus cancer types, elevated NOVA2 expression acts as an unfavorable survival marker, although some lineages such as CCRCC and GBM show a favorable association.
LUAD, CCRCC, and UCEC are the cancer types where NOVA2 mass-spec protein most reproducibly stratifies survival.