| About TCGA
The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) is a comprehensive and coordinated effort to accelerate our understanding of the molecular basis of cancer through the application of genome analysis technologies, including large-scale genome sequencing. TCGA is a joint effort of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), two of the 27 Institutes and Centers of the National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
TCGA started as a pilot project in 2006 to assess and validate the feasibility of a full-scale effort to systematically explore the entire spectrum of genomic changes involved in human cancers. With the success of the pilot project, TCGA now will expand its efforts to aggressively pursue 20 or more additional cancers to yield a comprehensive, rigorous and publicly accessible data set that will improve our ability to diagnose, treat and prevent cancer.
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