HSPB1 and non-small cell lung carcinoma: To assess the prognostic value of HSP27, we investigated transcriptome data from a cohort of 935 NSCLC patients and found that higher expression of HSPB1 (mRNA of HSP27) was strongly associated with a poor survival, and that the level of HSPB1 expression was elevated in deceased patients (Supplementary Fig. S1A and Fig. 1A).