| BPA | bad prognosis-associated |
| circRNA | circular RNA |
| GPA | good prognosis-associated |
| lncRNA | long non-coding RNA |
| PD-1 | programmed death 1 |
| PD-L1 | programmed death ligand 1 |
| VHPV | very high prognostic value |
| BLCA | bladder urothelial carcinoma |
| BRCA | breast invasive carcinoma |
| CESC | cervical squamous cell carcinoma and endocervical adenocarcinoma |
| COAD | colon adenocarcinoma |
| ESCA | esophageal carcinoma |
| GBM | glioblastoma multiforme |
| HNSC | head and neck squamous cell carcinoma |
| KIRC | kidney renal clear cell carcinoma |
| KIRP | kidney renal papillary carcinoma |
| LAML | acute myeloid leukemia |
| LGG | brain lower grade glioma |
| LIHC | liver hepatocellular carcinoma |
| LUAD | lung adenocarcinoma |
| LUSC | lung squamous cell carcinoma |
| OV | ovary serous cystadenocarcinoma |
| PAAD | pancreatic adenocarcinoma |
| READ | rectum adenocarcinoma |
| SARC | sarcoma |
| SKCM | skin cutaneous melanoma |
| STAD | stomach adenocarcinoma |
| TCGA | the cancer genome atlas |
| UCEC | uterine corpus endometrial carcinoma |