To examine the association of the expression levels of CBFA2T2, as well as several important cancer stem cells factors, including SOX2, OCT4, CD133, NANOG and ALDH1A3, with the and prognosis of patients with RCC, Kaplan–Meier survival analyses were performed on patients in the high and low expression groups between these gene expression and clinical outcomes on the homepage of oncolnc [23]. Here, SOX2 is linked to renal cell carcinoma.