Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, PSD mass-spec protein is linked to patient survival in 1 of 34 cancer types, making it a survival-associated PSD data layer compared with 24 for mass-spec protein and 4 for mutation status.
The strongest signal is observed in lung squamous cell carcinoma (LSCC), where higher PSD mass-spec protein is associated with better disease-free survival. In most high-consensus cancer types, elevated PSD expression acts as an unfavorable survival marker, although some lineages such as LSCC show a favorable association.
LSCC are the cancer types where PSD mass-spec protein most reproducibly stratifies survival.