5caC	5-carboxylcytosine
5fC	5-formylcytosine
5hmC	5-hydroxymethylcytosine
5mC	5-methylcytosine
AC/ADC	Adenocarcinoma
ALK	Anaplastic lymphoma kinase
AUC	Area under the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve
BAL	Bronchoalveolar lavage
BRAF	B-raf proto-oncogene
BS-Seq	Bisulfite conversion followed by sequencing
CEA	Carcinoembryonic antigen
cfDNA	Cell-free circulating DNA
CGH	Comparative genomic hybridization
ChIP	Chromatin immunoprecipitation
CIS	Carcinoma in situ
CNV	Copy number variation
CTC	Circulating tumor cell
ctDNA	Cell-free tumor DNA
ddPCR	Droplet digital polymerase chain reaction
DFS	Disease free survival
DNMT	DNA methyltransferase enzyme
dNTP	Deoxynucleotide
DR	Death receptor
EGFR	Epidermal growth factor receptor
ELISA	Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay
ERBB2	Erb-B2 receptor tyrosine kinase 2
FHIT	Fragile histidine triad diadenosine triphosphatase
FISH	Fluorescence in situ hybridization
HER2	Human epidermal growth factor receptor 2
HNPCC	Hereditary non-polyposis colon cancer
HPLC	High-performance liquid chromatography
HUGO	Human Genome Organization
IHC	Immunohistochemistry
ISH	In situ hybridization
KRAS	Kirsten rat sarcoma viral oncogene
LDCT	Low-dose computer tomography
LOH	Loss of heterogeneity
Mb	Megabase
MeFISH	Methylation-specific fluorescence in situ hybridization
MET	Mesenchymal-epithelial transition factor
MLPA	Multiplex ligation-dependent probe amplification
MSI	Microsatellite instability
NA	Not available
NGS	Next-generation sequencing
NSCLC	Non-small cell lung carcinoma/Non-small cell lung cancer
NSE	Neuron-specific enolase
OS	Overall survival
PCR	Polymerase chain reaction
PI	Proximal-inflammatory
PP	Proximal-proliferative
PPV	Positive predictive value
PTM	Posttranslational modification
qPCR	Quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction
RET	Rearranged during transfection
RISC	RNA-induced silencing complex
ROC	Receiver operating characteristic
ROS1	C-ros oncogene 1
RT-PCR	Reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction
SCC	Squamous cell carcinoma/Squamous cell cancer
SCCA	Squamous cell carcinoma antigen
SCLC	Small cell lung carcinoma/Small cell lung cancer
SCNA	Somatic copy number alteration
SNP	Single nucleotide polymorphism
SNV	Single nucleotide variant
TCGA	The Cancer Genome Atlas
TKI	Tyrosine kinase inhibitor
TMB	Tumor mutation burden
TNM	TNM Classification of Malignant Tumors (tumor-lymph nodes-metastasis)
TRU	Terminal respiratory unit
WES	Whole-exome sequencing
WGS	Whole-genome sequencing