Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, PMPCA mass-spec protein is linked to patient survival in 4 of 34 cancer types, making it a survival-associated PMPCA data layer compared with 27 for mass-spec protein and 5 for mutation status.
The strongest signal is observed in lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD), where higher PMPCA mass-spec protein is associated with better disease-free survival. In most high-consensus cancer types, elevated PMPCA expression acts as an unfavorable survival marker, although some lineages such as LUAD and LSCC show a favorable association.
LUAD, GBM, and LSCC are the cancer types where PMPCA mass-spec protein most reproducibly stratifies survival.