Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, PDPN mass-spec protein is linked to patient survival in 3 of 34 cancer types, making it a survival-associated PDPN data layer compared with 28 for mass-spec protein and 2 for mutation status.
The strongest signal is observed in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC), where higher PDPN mass-spec protein is associated with worse disease-free survival. In most high-consensus cancer types, elevated PDPN expression acts as an unfavorable survival marker, although some lineages such as LSCC show a favorable association.
PDAC, GBM, and LSCC are the cancer types where PDPN mass-spec protein most reproducibly stratifies survival.