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Historically TCIA had implemented publication guidelines derived from the policy outlined by the The Cancer Genome Atlas, TCGA. These were followed in addition to the publication policy of the TCGA Data Portal: http://cancergenome.nih.gov/abouttcga/policies/publicationguidelines. At this time the only data set still under publication embargo is the TCGA-BLCA data set. This embargo will be lifted on 10/30/2018. If you wish to publish using this data set please contact the TCIA Helpdesk to request permission. All other cancer types are now available for use without any special restrictions. Please be sure to follow the standard TCIA citation guidelines, and to also provide attribution recognizing the TCGA data collection efforts. An example of a proper attribution is:
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