Fig. 5

Association between the PEGs signature and clinicopathological characteristics. Heatmap displaying the relationship between the PEGs signature and various clinicopathological features, including age, gender, clinical stage (T, N, M), lymphovascular invasion, perineural invasion, and survival status (a). Box plots illustrating the distribution of risk scores across different clinical subgroups (b). Abbreviations: PEGs, proliferation-essential genes