| TCM | traditional chinese medicine |
| TCGA | the cancer genome atlas |
| GEO | gene expression omnibus |
| FDR | false discovery rate |
| FC | fold change |
| GSEA | gene set enrichment analysis |
| ssGSEA | single-sample gene set enrichment analysis |
| DEGs | differentially expressed genes |
| TME | tumor microenvironment |
| SuStaIn | Subtype and Stage Inference |
| CAFs | cancer-associated fibroblasts |
| KEGG | Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes |