Table 2 Twenty-seven main cancer types. Cancer types are shown with the corresponding tissue/organ of occurrence and number of local somatic mutations and originating samples in COSMIC
Tissue/organ | Cancer types | Number of local somatic mutations in COSMIC | Number of samples | Average number of mutations per sample |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Bladder | Bladder cancer | 6 265 | 3 027 | 2.07 |
Blood | Acute myeloid leukemia | 11 650 | 5 857 | 1.99 |
Chronic myeloid leukemia | 1 603 | 1 041 | 1.54 | |
Lymphoma | 24 572 | 6 944 | 3.54 | |
Bone | Bone cancer | 2 814 | 706 | 3.99 |
Brain | Glioblastoma | 9 361 | 2 909 | 3.22 |
Neuroblastoma | 4 932 | 619 | 7.97 | |
Glioma | 12 793 | 2 947 | 4.34 | |
Medulloblastoma | 4 701 | 728 | 6.46 | |
Breast | Breast cancer | 31 544 | 4 404 | 7.16 |
Cervix | Cervical cancer | 136 | 132 | 1.03 |
Colorectal | Colorectal cancer | 37 727 | 25 806 | 1.46 |
Esophagus | Esophageal cancer | 3 659 | 433 | 8.45 |
Head and neck | Thyroid cancer | 19 975 | 13 908 | 1.44 |
Head and neck carcinoma | 75 | 67 | 1.12 | |
Kidney | Renal cell carcinoma | 27 897 | 1 750 | 15.94 |
Liver | Hepatocellular carcinoma | 19 100 | 2 091 | 9.13 |
Lung | Small cell lung cancer | 976 | 208 | 4.69 |
Non-small cell lung cancer | 19 991 | 11 236 | 1.78 | |
Ovary | Ovarian cancer | 19 286 | 2 936 | 6.57 |
Pancreas | Pancreatic cancer | 33 776 | 5 609 | 6.02 |
Prostate | Prostate cancer | 18 813 | 967 | 19.46 |
Skin | Melanoma | 12 374 | 7 923 | 1.56 |
Squamous cell carcinoma | 15 726 | 3 459 | 4.55 | |
Basal cell carcinoma | 292 | 251 | 1.16 | |
Stomach | Stomach cancer | 7 795 | 1 430 | 5.45 |
Uterus | Endometrial cancer | 5 722 | 1 627 | 3.52 |
Total | 353 555 | 109 015 | 3.24 | |