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KRAS Variant Groups and Overall Survival in PDAC

A first-party account of cBioPortal cohort retrieval, KRAS grouping, Kaplan–Meier estimation, pairwise Cox comparisons, and a denominator inconsistency that materially constrains interpretation.

Final cohort2,034
KRAS-mutated92.9%
Variant groups4
Overall log-rankp < .0001
01 / Scientific question

How do overall-survival distributions differ among major KRAS groups in this PDAC cohort?

The analysis used the MSK Pancreatic Cancer Study 2024 from cBioPortal and formed a final comparison cohort of 865 G12D, 684 G12V, 340 G12R, and 145 KRAS wild-type patients.

Study
pdac_msk_2024
Endpoint
Overall survival in months
Methods
Kaplan–Meier, log-rank, pairwise Cox models
Comparison
G12D, G12V, G12R, and wild type
02 / Managed execution

Study discovery, clinical harmonization, KRAS grouping, and survival modeling

Retrieve study dataQueried cBioPortal clinical and mutation records for the MSK 2024 PDAC study.
Build groupsMapped patients to G12D, G12V, G12R, or KRAS wild type for the final comparison.
Estimate survivalGenerated Kaplan–Meier curves and an overall log-rank comparison.
Compare pairsEstimated Cox hazard ratios for each major variant group against wild type.
03 / Results

Median survival was shortest in G12D, but pairwise evidence differed by group

Median OS

Wild type 24.2 months, G12R 20.4, G12V 18.0, and G12D 15.4.

G12D vs WT

HR 1.56, 95% CI 1.246–1.954, p = .0001.

G12V vs WT

HR 1.379, 95% CI 1.095–1.736, p = .0061.

G12R vs WT

HR 1.283, 95% CI 0.995–1.655, p = .0546; not conventionally significant.

Kaplan–Meier overall-survival curves for KRAS G12D, G12V, G12R, and wild-type PDAC groups
Report figure: Kaplan–Meier curves for the four groups. The figure title says N = 2,334, while the displayed group counts sum to 2,034; this page uses the group-count total and preserves the discrepancy.
04 / Interpretation boundary

Inconsistent denominators and observational design require caution

  • The PDF reports 2,336 study patients, 2,207 KRAS-mutated patients in one output, 2,270 complete survival records, and a 2,034-patient final four-group cohort.
  • The Kaplan–Meier figure title reports N = 2,334 even though its displayed groups total 2,034.
  • The analysis is unadjusted observational evidence and does not establish a causal or independently prognostic effect.
  • Potential clinical confounders, treatment differences, stage, and selection effects were not modeled in the reported pairwise comparisons.
Confidence boundary

The within-report curves and comparisons are inspectable, but the denominator mismatch should be reconciled before publication-quality clinical inference.

05 / Provenance

Reproducibility artifacts recorded in the session

clinical_data_msk2024.csvClinical records
survival_data_msk2024.csvComplete survival fields
survival_analysis_dataset.csvModeled cohort
kras_variant_summary.jsonVariant counts
final_survival_summary.csvGroup survival summaries
pairwise_survival_results.csvHazard-ratio comparisons
Original session report10-page PDF with cohort construction, survival results, figures, and recorded runtime of 41.1 seconds.
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