Otherwise, when the patients were categorized on the basis of sorcin expression in their tumor samples, the high SRI group and the low SRI group had similar median survival times (16 months in the high SRI group vs. 18 months in the low SRI group), although the rate of death seemed to decrease for patients in the low SRI group once they reached 30 months after surgery (Fig. 2j). Here, SRI is linked to neoplasm.