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Human Cancer Genomic Research Program
Provides sequencing, bioinformatics and biospecimen infrastructure for discovery and validation across cancers prevalent in Saudi Arabia.
01 / Project overview
What the record establishes.
- Geographic scope
- KFSHRC national referral population
- Project type
- Cancer genomics umbrella program and infrastructure
- Research domain
- Precision oncology and cancer genome research
- Years
- 2012–
- Lifecycle status
- active
- Status basis
- The program led the 2012 Saudi ICGC thyroid launch, was described as integral to ICGC in 2014, and its leadership and projects remain current on KFSHRC pages.
- Status evidence date
- 2026-08-15
- Scale
- Umbrella program; no single unduplicated participant total is published.
02 / Organizations and population
Who and what the project connects.
- Lead organizations
- King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre (KFSHRC)
- Partner organizations
- International Cancer Genome Consortium
- Organism / population
- Saudi patients with prevalent cancers
03 / Data and access
What exists and how it can be reached.
Data types
- tumor sequencing
- bioinformatics
- biospecimens
- clinical annotation
Data access
Project-specific; generally controlled
Identifiers
No public accession or identifier is listed for this record.
04 / Evidence and provenance
Why the record is included.
Inclusion basis
Long-running institutional cancer-genomics program that generated multiple named national cohorts and ICGC participation.
Editorial note
Parent/umbrella of several project records, including PTC-SA and KFSHRC cancer cohorts. Do not add umbrella and child sample counts. Start year is earliest independently evidenced program activity, not a stated founding year.
Sources
- primary record source Verified 2026-08-15
- additional record source Verified 2026-08-15
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