An Integrated TCGA Pan-Cancer Clinical Data Resource to Drive High-Quality Survival Outcome Analytics
Document Type
Journal Article
Publication Date
4-5-2018
Journal
Cell
Volume
173
Issue
2
DOI
10.1016/j.cell.2018.02.052
Keywords
clinical data resource; Cox proportional hazards regression model; disease-free interval; disease-specific survival; follow-up time; overall survival; progression-free interval; TCGA; The Cancer Genome Atlas; translational research
Abstract
© 2018 Elsevier Inc. 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. Analysis of clinicopathologic annotations for over 11,000 cancer patients in the TCGA program leads to the generation of TCGA Clinical Data Resource, which provides recommendations of clinical outcome endpoint usage for 33 cancer types.
APA Citation
Liu, J., Lichtenberg, T., Hoadley, K., Poisson, L., Lazar, A., Cherniack, A., Kovatich, A., Benz, C., Levine, D., Lee, A., Omberg, L., Wolf, D., Shriver, C., Thorsson, V., Caesar-Johnson, S., Demchok, J., Felau, I., Kasapi, M., Ferguson, M., Hutter, C., Sofia, H., Tarnuzzer, R., Wang, Z., Yang, L., Zenklusen, J., Zhang, J., Chudamani, S., Liu, J., Lolla, L., Naresh, R., Pihl, T., Sun, Q., & Wan, Y. (2018). An Integrated TCGA Pan-Cancer Clinical Data Resource to Drive High-Quality Survival Outcome Analytics. Cell, 173 (2). http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2018.02.052