Identifying the steady state in cancer patients and integrating biological datasets to study intertumor heterogeneity. Amplitudes of balanced process () for patients with lymphoma (Ly; patients 1–130), patients with bladder cancer (Bl; patients 131–223), healthy patients (H; patients 224–244), patients with gastric cancer (Ga; patients 245–355), patients with colorectal cancer (Co; patients 356–507), and patients with breast cancer (Br; patients 508–527) before and after normalization.