Across TCGA pan-cancer cohorts, TEX2 mass-spec protein is linked to patient survival in 5 of 34 cancer types, making it a survival-associated TEX2 data layer compared with 25 for mass-spec protein and 8 for mutation status.
The strongest signal is observed in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC), where higher TEX2 mass-spec protein is associated with worse overall survival. In most high-consensus cancer types, elevated TEX2 expression acts as an unfavorable survival marker, although some lineages such as UCEC and HNSC show a favorable association.
PDAC, LSCC, and UCEC are the cancer types where TEX2 mass-spec protein most reproducibly stratifies survival.