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. 2021 Jul 29;19:224. doi: 10.1186/s12957-021-02342-y

Table 1.

The 33 cancer types in TCGA pan-cancer project

Cancer types Abbr Normal tissues Cancer tissues Mutation CNV
Kidney Renal Clear Cell Carcinoma KIRC 72 539 370 531
Kidney Renal Papillary Cell Carcinoma KIRP 32 289 282 291
Kidney Chromophobe KICH 24 65 66 69
Brain Lower Grade Glioma LGG 0 529 526 516
Glioblastoma Multiforme GBM 5 169 403 580
Breast Invasive Carcinoma BRCA 113 1109 1026 1083
Lung Squamous Cell Carcinoma LUSC 49 502 485 504
Lung Adenocarcinoma LUAD 59 535 569 519
Rectum Adenocarcinoma READ 10 167 151 168
Colon Adenocarcinoma COAD 41 480 408 454
Uterine Carcinosarcoma UCS 0 56 57 59
Uterine Corpus Endometrial Carcinoma UCEC 35 552 531 542
Ovarian Serous Cystadenocarcinoma OV 0 379 412 582
Head and Neck Squamous Carcinoma HNSC 44 502 509 525
Thyroid Carcinoma THCA 58 510 500 502
Prostate Adenocarcinoma PRAD 52 499 498 495
Stomach Adenocarcinoma STAD 32 375 439 444
Skin Cutaneous Melanoma SKCM 1 471 468 370
Bladder Urothelial Carcinoma BLCA 19 414 411 411
Liver Hepatocellular Carcinoma LIHC 50 374 365 373
Cervical Squamous Cell Carcinoma and Endocervical Adenocarcinoma CESC 3 306 291 298
Adrenocortical Carcinoma ACC 0 79 92 93
Pheochromocytoma and Paraganglioma PCPG 3 183 184 165
Sarcoma SARC 2 263 239 260
Acute Myeloid Leukemia LAML 0 151 141 194
Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma PAAD 4 178 178 187
Esophageal Carcinoma ESCA 11 162 185 187
Testicular Germ Cell Tumors TGCT 0 156 151 153
Thymoma THYM 2 119 123 126
Mesothelioma MESO 0 86 82 90
Uveal Melanoma UVM 0 80 80 83
Lymphoid Neoplasm Diffuse Large B-cell Lymphoma DLBC 0 48 37 51
Cholangiocarcinoma CHOL 9 36 36 39
In total 730 10,363 10,295 10,944