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Bladder Urothelial Carcinoma (TCGA, Firehose Legacy)

cBioPortal DataHub · study blca_tcga · www.cbioportal.org/study/summary?id=blca_tcga

Study metadataOpen database (ODbL)TCGA Firehose LegacyApproximately 1 min read

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1. Summary2. Study description3. Citation & PubMed4. Source & licence

Summary

Bladder Urothelial Carcinoma (TCGA, Firehose Legacy) is a study catalogued by cBioPortal DataHub under the cancer-type code blca. EvidenceHelix groups it with kidney and bladder studies and lists it in the TCGA Firehose Legacy collection.

This page is catalog metadata only: what the study is called and where to find it. It does not report findings, mutation frequencies or patient numbers, and it is not clinical guidance.

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Study description

TCGA Bladder Urothelial Carcinoma. Source data from GDAC Firehose (http://gdac.broadinstitute.org/runs/stddata__2016_01_28/data/BLCA/20160128/). Previously known as TCGA Provisional.

Text as published in the source's study metadata.

Citation & PubMed

The source lists no citation or PubMed id for this study.

Source & licence

Metadata from cBioPortal DataHub at e1b75cd25b, available under the ODC Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0. See the Source metadata tab for every field.

Source metadata

Study identifier
blca_tcga
Short name
Bladder (TCGA)
Source cancer-type code
blca
Reference genome
not given
Source access groups
PUBLIC
Original study
View on cBioPortal
Metadata file
meta_study.txt at e1b75cd25b
Database licence
ODC Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0

Study-level metadata only (title, description, cancer-type code, citation, PubMed ids). No patient, sample, mutation or clinical data, and no publication full text, is included. Individual studies may carry their own terms; follow each study's source links before reusing its data. TCGA data are available under the Broad Institute GDAC TCGA Analysis Pipeline License; TCGA-derived records are preliminary or legacy releases.

Citations

The source lists no citation or PubMed id for this study.

Related studies

  • Bladder Cancer (MSK, Eur Urol 2014)

    Genomic Predictors of Survival in Patients with High-grade Urothelial Carcinoma of the Bladder. Targeted sequencing of 109 tumor samples (MSKCC, European Urology 2014).

    Kidney and bladderMSK studiesSource code blcaPubMed 1
  • Bladder Cancer (MSK, J Clin Onco 2013)

    Comprehensive profiling of 97 high-grade bladder tumors, including targeted sequencing of 15 cancer genes

    Kidney and bladderMSK studiesSource code blcaPubMed 1
  • Bladder Cancer (MSK, Nat Genet 2016)

    Whole exome and targeted sequencing of 34 plasmacytoid-variant (signet ring cell) tumors of the bladder

    Kidney and bladderMSK studiesSource code blcaPubMed 1
  • Bladder Cancer (MSK/TCGA, 2020)

    Whole-exome or targeted sequencing of 476 muscle-invasive bladder tumor/normal pairs via TCGA or MSK-IMPACT sequencing.

    Kidney and bladderTCGA (other releases)Source code blcaPubMed 1
  • Bladder Cancer (TCGA, Cell 2017)

    Whole-exome sequencing of 412 muscle-invasive bladder tumors and matched normal samples.

    Kidney and bladderTCGA (other releases)Source code blcaPubMed 1
  • Bladder Urothelial Carcinoma (BGI, Nat Genet 2013)

    Whole-exome and whole-genome sequencing of 99 bladder cancer tumor/normal pairs. Generated by BGI.

    Kidney and bladderOther published and consortium studiesSource code blcaPubMed 1
  • Bladder Urothelial Carcinoma (DFCI/MSK, Cancer Discov 2014)

    Whole exome sequencing of tumor/normal samples from 50 patients treated with cisplatin-based chemotherapy for muscle invasive urothelial carcinoma.

    Kidney and bladderMSK studiesSource code blcaPubMed 1
  • Bladder Urothelial Carcinoma (TCGA, Nature 2014)

    Whole-exome sequencing of 131 high-grade muscle-invasive urothelial bladder carcinomas

    Kidney and bladderTCGA (other releases)Source code blcaPubMed 1

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At a glance

Study ID
blca_tcga
Cancer family
Kidney and bladder
Collection
TCGA Firehose Legacy
Source code
blca
PubMed links
0

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Study metadata from cBioPortal DataHub (e1b75cd25b, synced 2026-10-31), available under the ODC Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0; attribution required. EvidenceLib is a research-education resource, not medical advice. Sources & licence