Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, PDGFD mass-spec protein is linked to patient survival in 3 of 34 cancer types, making it a survival-associated PDGFD data layer compared with 21 for mass-spec protein and 5 for mutation status.
The strongest signal is observed in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC), where higher PDGFD mass-spec protein is associated with worse disease-free survival. In most high-consensus cancer types, elevated PDGFD expression acts as an unfavorable survival marker, although some lineages such as CCRCC show a favorable association.
PDAC, LUAD, and CCRCC are the cancer types where PDGFD mass-spec protein most reproducibly stratifies survival.