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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Nov 17.
Published in final edited form as: J Pathol. 2018 Feb 22;244(5):512–524. doi: 10.1002/path.5028

Table 1.

TCGA cancer types*

Tumour type TCGA code Number of cases with-Omic data Number of cases with digital pathology images
Haematopoietic
    Acute myeloid leukaemia AML 191 NA
    Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma DLBC 48 48
    Thymoma THYM 124 124
Gynaecological
    Cervical squamous cell carcinoma Endocervical adenocarcinoma CESC 307 308
    Uterine carcinosarcoma UCS 57 57
    Uterine corpus endometrial carcinoma UCEC 559 560
    Ovarian serous cystadenocarcinoma OV 608 590
Urinary tract
    Bladder urothelial carcinoma BLCA 412 412
    Renal chromophobe carcinoma KICH 66 113
    Clear cell renal cell carcinoma KIRC 535 537
    Papillary renal cell carcinoma KIRP 291 291
Prostate/testis
    Prostate adenocarcinoma PRAD 498 500
    Testicular germ cell tumours TGCT 150 150
Endocrine
    Thyroid carcinoma THCA 507 507
    Adrenocortical carcinoma ACC 92 92
    Phaeochromocytoma Paraganglioma PCPG 179 179
Breast
    Breast invasive carcinoma BRCA 1098 1103
Gastrointestinal tract
    Oesophageal carcinoma ESCA 185 185
    Stomach adenocarcinoma STAD 443 478
    Colonic adenocarcinoma COAD 460 462
    Rectal adenocarcinoma READ 171 283
Liver, pancreaticobiliary
    Cholangiocarcinoma CHOL 36 39
    Hepatocellular carcinoma LIHC 377 377
    Pancreatic adenocarcinoma PAAD 185 191
Pulmonary
    Lung adenocarcinoma LUAD 585 523
    Lung squamous cell carcinoma LUSC 504 512
    Mesothelioma MESO 87 87
Head and neck
    Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma HNSC 528 523
Melanocytic malignancies
    Cutaneous melanoma SKCM 470 471
    Uveal melanoma UVM 80 80
Brain
    Lower-grade glioma LGG 516 521
    Glioblastoma multiforme GBM 617 613
Mesenchymal
    Adult soft tissue sarcoma SARC 261 261
*

From https://portal.gdc.cancer.gov (accessed 27 October 2017).

Numbers of cases reflect the total with data, including cases excluded from TCGA analyses for quality control or pathology review. -Omic data for these studies includes genomic, transcriptomic, epigenomic, and/or proteomic data. Not all cases with data were analysable across all platforms.