| Policies & Guidelines

The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) Project Human Subjects Protection and Data Access Policies:

The National Cancer Institute and National Human Genome Research Institute have collaboratively developed policies and guidelines for TCGA with input from outside experts to assist in governing how investigators implement tissue and clinical data collections and access data for genomic studies.

Please click on the links below to learn more about TCGA Human Subjects Protection and Data Access policies and download policy and informed consent documents:

The Cancer Genome Atlas Program Human Subjects Protection and Data Access Policies

History and Development of Informed Consent Documents

TCGA Data Use Policy and Publication Guidelines:

To promote the responsible use of TCGA data sets, all investigators and their institutions seeking access must acknowledge their agreement with TCGA policies and procedures, which are described in the TCGA Data Portal Data Use Certification.

In maintaining responsible data use practices for TCGA and using consistent publication practices as data becomes more readily available, TCGA’s leading experts have established TCGA data use policies and publications guidelines to provide guidance to investigators.

Responsible Use and Publication of Data

Publication Guidelines