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. 2023 Aug 20;21:558. doi: 10.1186/s12967-023-04435-6

Table 2.

TCGA cancer abbreviations

Cancer Cancer type Full name
LGG Primary Brain low grade glioma
KIRC Primary Kidney renal cell carcinoma
SKCM Metastatic Skin cutaneous melanoma
STAD Primary Stomach adenocarcinoma
COAD Primary Colon adenocarcinoma
ACC Primary Adrenocortical carcinoma
BLCA Primary Bladder urothelial cancer
BRCA Primary Breast invasive carcinoma
CESC Primary Cervical squamous cell carcinoma and endocervical adenocarcinoma
CHOL Primary Cholangiocarcinoma
ESCA Primary Esophageal carcinoma
GBM Primary Glioblastoma multiforme
HNSC Primary Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma
KICH Primary Kidney chromophobe
PAAD Primary Pancreatic adenocarcinoma
THYM Primary Thymoma
KIRP Primary Kidney renal papillary cell carcinoma
LIHC Primary Liver hepatocellular carcinoma
LUAD Primary Lung adenocarcinoma
DLBC Primary Lymphoid neoplasm diffuse large b-cell lymphoma
MESO Primary Mesothelioma
OV Primary Ovarian cystadenocarcinoma
PCPG Primary Pheochromocytoma and paraganglioma
PRAD Primary Prostate adenocarcinoma
READ Primary Rectum adenocarcinoma
TGCT Primary Testicular germ cell tumors
THCA Primary Thyroid carcinoma
UCS Primary Uterine carcinosarcoma
UVM Primary Uveal melanoma
UCEC Primary Uterine corpus endometrial carcinoma
LUSC Primary Lung squamous cell carcinoma
SARC Primary Sarcoma