For women of HER2-positive cancers, when either local recurrences or distant metastases were regarded as failure, the 5-year disease-free survival were 79 % (95 % confidence interval = 58 to 90 %) for women of positive stomatin expression and 59 % for women of negative stomatin expression (95 % confidence interval = 36 to 77 %, p = 0.037). Here, STOM is linked to cancer.