An Integrated TCGA Pan-Cancer Clinical Data Resource to Drive High-Quality Survival Outcome Analytics
Recommended Citation
Liu J, Lichtenberg T, Hoadley KA, Poisson LM, Lazar AJ, Cherniack AD, Kovatich AJ, Benz CC, Levine DA, Lee AV, Omberg L, Wolf DM, Shriver CD, Thorsson V, and Hu H. An integrated TCGA pan-cancer clinical data resource to drive high-quality survival outcome analytics. Cell 2018; 173(2):400-416.e411.
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
4-5-2018
Publication Title
Cell
Abstract
For a decade, The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) program collected clinicopathologic annotation data along with multi-platform molecular profiles of more than 11,000 human tumors across 33 different cancer types. TCGA clinical data contain key features representing the democratized nature of the data collection process. To ensure proper use of this large clinical dataset associated with genomic features, we developed a standardized dataset named the TCGA Pan-Cancer Clinical Data Resource (TCGA-CDR), which includes four major clinical outcome endpoints. In addition to detailing major challenges and statistical limitations encountered during the effort of integrating the acquired clinical data, we present a summary that includes endpoint usage recommendations for each cancer type. These TCGA-CDR findings appear to be consistent with cancer genomics studies independent of the TCGA effort and provide opportunities for investigating cancer biology using clinical correlates at an unprecedented scale.
Medical Subject Headings
Databases, Genetic; Genomics; Humans; Kaplan-Meier Estimate; Neoplasms; Proportional Hazards Models
PubMed ID
29625055
Volume
173
Issue
2
First Page
400
Last Page
416
