Table 1.
Summary of TCGA cancer types, abbreviations, and number for telomerase score (TS).
| Tumor site | TCGA abbreviation | Number of samples |
|---|---|---|
| Adrenocortical carcinoma | ACC | 79 |
| Bladder urothelial carcinoma | BLCA | 408 |
| Breast invasive carcinoma | BRCA | 1103 |
| Cervical squamous cell carcinoma and endocervical adenocarcinoma | CESC | 306 |
| Cholangiocarcinoma | CHOL | 36 |
| Colon adenocarcinoma | COAD | 453 |
| Lymphoid neoplasm diffuse large B‐cell lymphoma | DLBC | 48 |
| Esophageal carcinoma | ESCA | 185 |
| Glioblastomamultiforme | GBM | 168 |
| Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma | HNSC | 522 |
| Kidney chromophobe cell carcinoma | KICH | 66 |
| Kidney renal clear cell carcinoma | KIRC | 534 |
| Kidney renal papillary cell carcinoma | KIRP | 291 |
| Acute myeloid leukemia | LAML | 173 |
| Brain lower grade glioma | LGG | 534 |
| Liver hepatocellular carcinoma | LIHC | 374 |
| Lung adenocarcinoma | LUAD | 517 |
| Lung squamous cell carcinoma | LUSC | 501 |
| Mesothelioma | MESO | 87 |
| Ovarian serous cystadenocarcinoma | OV | 309 |
| Pancreatic adenocarcinoma | PAAD | 179 |
| Pheochromocytoma and paraganglioma | PCPG | 184 |
| Prostate adenocarcinoma | PRAD | 498 |
| Rectum adenocarcinoma | READ | 161 |
| Sarcoma | SARC | 263 |
| Skin cutaneous melanoma | SKCM | 472 |
| Stomach adenocarcinoma | STAD | 415 |
| Testicular germ cell tumors | TGCT | 156 |
| Thyroid carcinoma | THCA | 513 |
| Thymoma | THYM | 120 |
| Uterine corpus endometrial carcinoma | UCEC | 533 |
| Uterine carcinosarcoma | UCS | 57 |
| Uveal melanoma | UVM | 80 |