sentences:  The goal of TCGA Phase II is to expand the success experienced in the pilot project to more cancer types, providing a large, statistically significant data set for further discovery.TCGA is co-managed by scientists and managers from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI).With the expansion of TCGA from the pilot phase to Phase II in October, 2009, the NCI created a TCGA Program Office.