Pancancer

UCSC leading team science pancancer effort 

Involving more than 1,300 scientists and clinicians from 37 countries, the ICGC/TCGA Pan-Cancer Analysis of Whole Genomes (known as PCAWG or the Pan-Cancer Project) analyzed more than 2,600 genomes of 38 different tumor types, creating a huge resource of primary cancer genomes. This was then the launch-point for 16 working groups studying multiple aspects of cancer’s development, causation, progression, and classification.

The study provides the most complete picture to date of cancer-causing mutations in all parts of the genome according to steering committee member and UCSC Professor Josh Stuart.