Besides, we also found there was no relationship between the HSF1 expression and the clinical characteristics of pancreatic cancer patients such as tumor stage (Additional file 1: Fig. S1K and Additional file 2: Table S1), and HSF1 was not an independent risk factors for OS of pancreatic cancer patients (Additional file 1: Fig. S1L and Additional file 2: Table S1) according to TCGA datasets. The gene discussed is HSF1; the disease is familial pancreatic carcinoma.