We stratified these 581 CRC patients based on the p38α protein expression z-score (RPPA data) and c-MYC protein expression z-score (RPPA data) and selected the subsets of patients with high p38α and high c-MYC expression (77 patients), or high p38α and low c-MYC expression (154 patients) to investigate the association between the expression levels of these two proteins and the patients’ prognoses. Here, MYC is linked to colorectal carcinoma.