| Term | Definition |
| AID | Activation-induced deaminase |
| AJCC | American Joint Committee on Cancer |
| APOBEC | Apolipoprotein B mRNA-editing enzyme catalytic polypeptide-like |
| CI | Confidence interval |
| CIBERSORT | Cell-type Identification By Estimating Relative Subsets Of RNA Transcripts |
| COSMIC | Catalogue of Somatic Mutations in Cancer |
| ESTIMATE | Estimation of Stromal and Immune cells in Malignant Tumors |
| FDR | False discovery rate |
| GDC | Genomic Data Commons |
| GTEx | Genotype-Tissue Expression project |
| HR | Hazard ratio |
| mRNAsi | mRNA-based stemness index |
| PD-L1 | Programmed death-ligand 1 (CD274) |
| SBS | Single-base substitution (mutational signature) |
| TCGA | The Cancer Genome Atlas |
| TIMER | Tumor Immune Estimation Resource |
| TME | Tumor microenvironment |