As a complement, we reanalyzed the prognostic value of SOX30 in the patients at late stage after categorizing the patients as SOX30-high or -low group according to the median score of the patients at only stage III + IV (the number of high SOX30 expression patients at late stage is 40, and if SOX30 expression is associated with the survival of ADC patients at advanced stage, it should also be reflected in the regrouped patients base on the median score of only late stage patients). This evidence concerns the gene SOX30 and AIDS dementia complex.